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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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08JERUSALEM1166JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/02): RAFAH - "STOP
[...] Independent Al- Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Rafa crossing again" (07/03): "hundreds of Palestinians tried to cross the Egyptian borders through the Rafah crossing...the problem with this sole passageway between Gaza and the world, is that it is controlled by an agreement between E [...]
2008-07-03 08:12:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1179JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/07): SYRIAN BID TO HOST
[...] Independent Al- Ayyam runs its daily editorial entitled, "Abbas- Assad meeting and Internal Palestinian Dialogue!!" (07/07): "... there are official declarations and... indications that the situation is not yet ripe for [meetings between Abbas and Hamas leader Mish'al], especially since Hamas [...]
2008-07-07 12:46:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1188JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/08): "A COMPREHENSIVE DEAL OR
[...] Independent Al-Quds prints its main, daily editorial under the title, "The Special importance of Abu Mazin's Visit to Damascus" (7/08): "...Abu Mazin met with a number of leaders from different JERUSALEM 00001188 002 OF 002 Palestinian factions, but did not meet with any Hamas leaders, [...]
2008-07-08 09:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1200JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/09): NATIONAL DIALOGUE - TO
[...] Independent Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "National dialogue should be comprehensive" (7/09): "...Certainly Abu Mazen's visit to Damascus does not mean the end of... Palestinian national dialogue. [The dialogue] will not be successful unless it includes all of the factions and. [...]
2008-07-09 10:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1208JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/10): VANISHING HOPES FOR
[...] Independent Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Truce talks, dialogue, and agreement" (7/10): "...it is obvious that the possibility of an agreement... or even a meeting [between Fatah and Hamas] has almost disappeared... The truce [with Israel in the Gaza Strip] will not last long fo [...]
2008-07-10 08:26:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1227JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/11): FAYYAD'S PRACTICAL IDEAS
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled: "Dr. Fayyad's ideas to end division are practical and constructive" (7/11): "...out of a feeling of deep responsibility towards his people and the cause of his homeland, [Palestinian Authority Premier] Dr. Fayyad has laid out some construc [...]
2008-07-11 09:48:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1237JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/14): WHICH COMES FIRST: UNITY
[...] Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Obstacles to Palestinian dialogue"(7/14): "...the overwhelming majority of [the Palestinian] people ...believe that dialogue is the solution [to internal Palestinian division]...[however]... the most dangerous obstacle in the way of dialogue is th [...]
2008-07-14 08:21:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1245JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/15): THE LINK BETWEEN NATIONAL
[...] Independent Al-Ayyam prints an editorial by Muhannad Abdul Hamid entitled, "All roads are closed to the [national] unity initiatives" (7/15): "...the initiative by [Palestinian Authority President] Abu Mazin [to begin a dialogue with Hamas] has gained special attention because it was presented [...]
2008-07-15 10:33:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1259JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/16): "HAS THE WORLD BECOME
[...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "A call on the international community to halt Israeli actions." Everyday Israel performs acts of tyranny [against Palestinians] such as destroying houses, confiscating land or insisting on building barriers in the middle of farming villages that [...]
2008-07-16 10:41:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1262REACTION TO PRISONER EXCHANGE: PA CONCERNED ABOUT
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah leaders publicly cheered the release of Lebanese prisoners but privately feared that Hizbollah, not the PA, will receive credit for Palestinian prisoners released in the future. PA Prisoners Affairs Minister Ashraf Ajrami said the GOI has not [...]
2008-07-16 14:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PHUM PREL PTER IS
08JERUSALEM1264JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/17): THE PRISONER RELEASE - "A
[...] Al-Quds reprints an editorial without attribution to the original source (UAE paper Al-Khalil) under the title, "The naivety of betting on Obama" (7/17): "Many Arab writers and political analysts are betting on Obama's victory in the U.S. elections, thinking that if he wins, it will also cons [...]
2008-07-17 10:35:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1277JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/18): PRISONER EXCHANGE - FIRST
[...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "And what about the 11,000 Palestinian Prisoners?" (7/18): "...the prisoners' exchange deal which took place a couple of days ago between Hizbollah and Israel was the successful result of difficult negotiations conducted under United Nations sponso [...]
2008-07-18 10:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1308JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/21): WHICH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-21 11:21:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1309CORRECTED COPY - JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/21):
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-21 11:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1322JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/22): WESTERN DECLARATIONS THAT
[...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Brown's Visit and his Positive Declarations" (7/22): "During his visit to the Palestinian lands and Israel, British Premier Gordon Brown showed positive understanding of the situation and peace demands. He talked frankly and clearly regarding the [...]
2008-07-22 10:54:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1335JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/23): AMERICA HAS NO PERMANENT
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial by Rasim Ebaydat from Jerusalem, entitled, "America has no permanent enemies, when will Arab moderates learn that???" (7/23): "...America sees that engaging Iran... is better than encountering it militarily. This Iranian-American relationship shoul [...]
2008-07-23 11:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1339JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/24): "BARAK OBAMA WILL SOLVE
[...] Independent Al- Ayyam runs an editorial by Abdullah Awwad entitled, "Barak Obama will solve it" (7/24): "...the democratic candidate is here promising that he will work to solve the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, from his first moment in the White House ... Bush promised that the two-state sol [...]
2008-07-24 12:17:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1342PA NEEDS ARAB SUPPORT TO MAKE JULY SALARY PAYMENTS
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministers have publicly stated that the PA will not be able to pay July's salaries without receipt of additional "Arab and foreign" assistance. So far in July, the PA has received only the European Commission's monthly contribution of USD 23 million (w [...]
2008-07-24 14:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN ECON PGOV KWBG SA KU QA AE
08JERUSALEM1349JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/25): DIFFERING VIEWS ON
[...] Independent Al- Ayyam runs an editorial by Rajab Abu Sirriyyeh entitled, "Barack Obama: the journey in search of the Jewish voice" (7/25): "...Obama's attitude towards the Israeli side...has become clearer and more practical. [His visit to Sderot]...aims to portray Israel as a victim of Pales [...]
2008-07-25 10:46:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1355JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/28): "Bush...seeks to achieve
[...] Al-Quds runs an editorial by Faysal Abu Khadra entitled, "Obama...and the Miracle of Israel" (7/28): "It is sad to hear and read that the African-American Senator whose father is a Muslim and whose mother is a white American Christian has a tendency towards [miraculously supporting Israel] rath [...]
2008-07-28 10:35:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1364JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/29): "There is worse to come if
[...] Independent Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Israel destroys peace...and we destroy ourselves?!!" (7/29): "Finally the Israeli Premier, Ehud Olmert, confessed that achieving peace this year is unlikely....Israel has continued its settlement activities everywhere especially in Jerus [...]
2008-07-29 10:35:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1374JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/30): Demolition of Palestinian
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "With what right are Palestinian houses destroyed?" (7/30): "It has become impossible to tolerate the official international, Arab and Palestinian silence regarding the Israeli Authority's actions of planned and intensive demolition operati [...]
2008-07-30 09:45:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1385JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/31): Doubts that future Israeli
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its main editorial entitled, "The end of Olmert's era" (7/31): "Finally, the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced...that he is not going to run in the primary elections of the Kadima party [scheduled for September] ... What is important for the Palestinian peopl [...]
2008-07-31 11:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1404JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/01): Strong support for
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial by Rajeh Abu Asab entitled, "Making the national dialogue successful is in the Palestinian and Arab interest" (8/01): "Abbas has announced the launch of the Palestinian-Palestinian national dialogue following his meeting with President Hosni Mubarak [...]
2008-08-01 11:19:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1412JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/04): A message to those who
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Enough...!!" (8/04): "The sad events in the Gaza Strip during the last three days and their results have shocked and surprised Palestinians throughout the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, in refugee camps and abroad, not only because they form a [...]
2008-08-04 07:25:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1422JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/05): Desperate calls for end
[...] Independent Al-Quds carries its daily editorial entitled, "How can we regain our waning confidence?" (8/05): "A lot has been said about the low level to which the Palestinian attitude has fallen due to this destructive division between the two major parties [Fatah and Hamas] in the Palestinian [...]
2008-08-05 09:51:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1434JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/06): National dialogue must be
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Dialogue based on attachment to Palestine" (8/06): "Although [Palestinian] parties [Fatah and Hamas] have closed their ears to the calls made by both Palestinians and the wider Arab world for a serious and effective dialogue for the sake o [...]
2008-08-06 13:56:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1442JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/07): A call for public and
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-07 07:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1444JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/07): A call for public and
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "Where is the role of the public...?" (8/07): "The tragic situation in which we [Palestinians] live is characterized by three signs: - The first sign is the destructive bloody conflict for authority and the preference of narrow group interests ove [...]
2008-08-07 08:44:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1471JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/08): Frustration at lack of
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Another Palestinian-Israeli summit but...!" (8/08): "Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas met with the Israeli Premier, Ehud Olmert, in a series of organized meetings between the two sides [on August 6]. As usual, the new mee [...]
2008-08-08 09:34:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1482JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/11): Mourning over the death
[...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs its daily editorial by Hamada Fara'neh entitled, "Advice for the Palestinian President" (08/11): "More than ever before, President Mahmoud Abbas needs the solidarity of the Fatah movement. The movement, as a political struggle organization, is the mother that delivere [...]
2008-08-11 08:27:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1487JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/12): Who deserves
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its main editorial entitled, "Egypt... and the Palestinian Situation" (08/12): "Rafah and the other crossings were opened per international arrangements and agreement, and what actually closed them down is the takeover by force of the authority in Gaza and the continuit [...]
2008-08-12 10:12:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1491JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/13): Palestinian insistence on
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-13 09:43:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1499JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/14): "Dangerous Signs in
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-14 09:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1511JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/15): The status of Palestinians
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial by Azzam Tawfiq Abu Al-Su'oud entitled, "Will there be a New Middle East?" (8/15): "Since the beginning of [Bush's] presence in the White House, we have heard about American plans for a new Middle East ... We are accustomed to the idea that the Ameri [...]
2008-08-15 10:03:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1519JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/18): All talk and no action on
[...] Independent Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "National Dialogue...Again" (8/18): "We are getting tired of calling for [Palestinian] national unity and we request that it be achieved as quickly as possible to end the division ... Everybody is talking about the national dialogue, its [...]
2008-08-18 09:19:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1529JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/19): Palestinian national
[...] Independent Al-Quds carries an editorial by Walid Al-Awad, Member of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian People's Party, entitled, "the Palestinian National Dialogue Needs Palestinian Political Will and an Active Arab Role" (8/19): "Despite the increasing talks and press statements claiming [...]
2008-08-19 10:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1534JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/20): LACK OF MOVEMENT ON
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs a daily editorial entitled, "A Step in the Road to Releasing Thousands of Prisoners" (8/20): "Each Palestinian prisoner released by Israel reduces the burden and suffering of the Palestinian people in general and of the prisoner's friends and relatives in particular. . [...]
2008-08-20 11:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1547JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/21): WHY DO PALESTINIANS INSIST
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abdul Rahim Mallouh, entitled, "Why?!!!" (8/21): "[T]he important lesson Palestinian decision-makers, in particular, and the Palestinian people, in general, should take [from int [...]
2008-08-21 07:28:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1555JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/22): Doubt concerning Hamas'
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "Our Cause and the Latest International Variables" (8/22): "Palestinians and Arabs need to benefit from the latest international variables and developments in order to advance the just peace process, taking into consideration that the conditions o [...]
2008-08-22 08:17:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1557JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/25): IF THE SHIPS BREAK THE
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by regular columnist Talal Al-Sharif entitled, "The Two Ships--So Breaking the Siege is not in One Direction!" (8/25): "[T]he sailing of the two ships [to the Gaza Strip] is a good step, but political [aspirations] cannot be achieved without pure national [...]
2008-08-25 07:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1562JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/26): A First Step towards Full
[...] Under the headline "Congratulations on the Prisoners' Release, What's next..!" (8/26),Independent Al-Quds opined in its main editorial: "This is a first step, and Israel should consider it as such, towards the comprehensive release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners crowding Israeli jails a [...]
2008-08-26 06:40:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1596JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/27): Guarded Optimism following
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "The Settlement Activity Should Be Condemned with Clear Cut Sentences" (8/27): "[T]he U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, talked, after her meeting with [the Palestinian Authority (PA)] President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, about the expans [...]
2008-08-27 07:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1610JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/28): WILL CAIRO TALKS ACHIEVE A
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "The National Dialogue as Target and not as Logo" (8/28): "[I]nternal and external factors, such as competition between the Palestinian factions and Arab and international pressure, hinder the achievement of Palestinian national unity. These fac [...]
2008-08-28 07:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1621JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/29): PEACE NEGOTIATIONS -
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "The Return and not the Permanent Resettlement" (8/29): "[T]he declarations of the [Palestinian Authority] President Mahmoud Abbas in Beirut confirm...that the Palestinian refugees object to the idea of permanent resettlement [in Lebanon]...and t [...]
2008-08-29 08:34:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1627JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/02): WHITHER INTERNAL
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by Gaza political scientist Dr. Naji Sadiq Sharab, entitled, "Whither the [Internal] Division..." (9/02): "[T]his internal division [between Fatah and Hamas]...will mean the disappearance of the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state ... it strips [...]
2008-09-02 10:13:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1634JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/03): DEBATING THE ROLE OF ARAB
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "A Dangerous Legal Precedent" (9/03): "According to news reports, an American court has issued a ruling to impose a heavy fine on the Palestinian Authority for the 1996 killing of an Israeli-American by Hamas. This has established a (new) legal p [...]
2008-09-03 09:26:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1640JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/04): INTERNATIONAL CHANGES AND
[...] Independent Al-Quds editorialized in "Special Damascus Summit," (9/4): "Today in Damascus a special quartet summit (which includes French President Sarkozy, President Assad of Syria, Amir of Qatar Al Thani, and Turkish PM Erdogan) is held... The convening of this summit by itself is considered [...]
2008-09-04 06:54:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1651JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/05): INTERNAL PALESTINIAN
[...] Wadi' Abu Nassar, Executive Director of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops in the Holy Land, opines in independent Al-Quds under the headline "An agreement to show off, not to implement" (09/05): "Recently, American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice concluded her 17th visit to the Middle East [...]
2008-09-05 10:10:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1658JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/08): INTERNAL DIVISION COLORS
[...] Independent Al-Quds editorialized in "We are not in Need of More Division," (9/8): "Once again, division in the Palestinian arena has resurfaced in the expression of political positions related to the teachers' strike in the Gaza Strip. This is, of course, not a political issue because the te [...]
2008-09-08 10:04:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1681JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/09): CONTINUED PALESTINIAN
[...] Independent Al-Quds editorializes in "The strikes..." (9/8): "We are experiencing extraordinary, catastrophic conditions in all aspects of our political, economic and daily lives. The on-going JERUSALEM 00001681 002 OF 002 strike [by teachers and health care workers] is increasing the [...]
2008-09-09 09:25:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1685JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/10): ALTERNATIVES TO THE
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by daily columnist Dr. Hasan Abdullah entitled, "The success of Cairo talks Could save our communal ship from sinking" (9/10): "[C]airo talks must lead to an agreement...the agreement should pave the way for presidential and legislative Palestinian electio [...]
2008-09-10 10:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1692JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/11): "ENDLESS NEGOTIATIONS ARE
[...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs an editorial by daily columnist Abdullah Awwad entitled, "What comes after Negotiations?!" (9/11): "[T]he conflict in Palestine since the beginning [has been a]... conflict rooted in several clashes: between an old and new history...between the geographic contours of [...]
2008-09-11 09:17:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1698JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/12): Heightened Speculation
[...] Under the title, "The Seventh Anniversary of September 11" (9/12),the independent Al-Quds argues in its main editorial: JERUSALEM 00001698 002 OF 002 "Against the background of the September 11 attacks, the Palestinian issue remained on the margins of developments for the first seven [...]
2008-09-12 07:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1716JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/15): A "MULTIPOLAR" WORLD AND
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its main editorial under the title, "Partition on the Basis of International Legitimacy"(09/15): "in a statement seldom made by Israeli leaders, Premier Ehud Olmert said [on September 14] in an address to his government, that the dream of Greater Israel has ended [fore [...]
2008-09-15 08:54:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1721JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/16): DISCUSSING THE LEGITIMACY
[...] Under the title, "Required... Exit From Useless Debate", Al-Quds independent opines in its main editorial (09/16): "The debate over JERUSALEM 00001721 002 OF 002 President Mahmud Abbas' remaining time in office is heating up over the issue of whether it will end on January 9 or at the e [...]
2008-09-16 10:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1729JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/17): "ONE NATIONAL VISION AND
[...] Al-Quds independent writes in its main editorial entitled "Cairo Dialogue is an Opportunity Not to Be Wasted" (09/17): "Fatah and Hamas, or more precisely, the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Government in Gaza, should benefit from this [one-time] opportunity. Dialogue should place [...]
2008-09-17 09:12:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1735JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/18): THE "PALESTINIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-18 07:40:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1745JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/19): PREDICTIONS ABOUT LIVNI
[...] The main editorial in Al-Quds independent runs under the title "The Ramifications of Livni's Win of the Leadership of Kadima" (09/19): "Palestinians have always dealt with Israeli political developments on the basis of them being an internal issue that chiefly concern Israelis only. The Pale [...]
2008-09-19 08:40:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1753JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/22): THE UN, THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] Al-Quds independent argues in its main editorial under the title, "International Responsibility" (09/22): [I]nternal political crises in Israel... directly impact the Palestinian issue and efforts to reach a solution [to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict]... How much longer will the internation [...]
2008-09-22 08:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1765JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/23): "EAST JERUSALEM
[...] The main editorial of Al-Quds independent argues under the title, "Judaization plans are Non-Stop As Are Efforts to Launch Dialogue?!!" (09/23): "A few days ago construction started near the Magreb Gate [Old City, Jerusalem] to build, it seems, settlement neighborhoods. There is also the iss [...]
2008-09-23 07:46:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1786JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/24): PALESTINIANS SEE
[...] In its main editorial, Al-Quds independent argues under the title, "The Series of 'Accidents' in Jerusalem" (09/24): "The day before yesterday, news reported an accident in West Jerusalem where a Palestinian Jerusalemite ran over a number of pedestrians on one of the city's sidewalks. The acc [...]
2008-09-24 11:08:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1792JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/25): CALL FOR A MEDIA AND
[...] Under the title, "A Comprehensive Truce, not an Escalation of Disputes, is a Must Before Launching Dialogue", independent Al-Quds argues in its main editorial (09/25): "The success of [internal Palestinian] dialogue does not depend on Egyptian intentions or... the increased support of the Arab [...]
2008-09-25 08:19:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1802JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/26): PRESIDENT BUSH'S LEGACY
[...] In its main editorial, Al-Quds independent opines under the title "Ideas Alone are not Enough" (09/26): "History will judge the presidency of George W. Bush... It was a period full of overseas wars and emergency laws to monitor terrorist suspects and a JERUSALEM 00001802 002 OF 002 re [...]
2008-09-26 09:15:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1809JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/29): INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON
[...] Under the title "So that we don't drown in shallow water," regular columnist Talal Okal opines in independent Al-Ayyam (9/29): JERUSALEM 00001809 003 OF 003 "Does Bush have the ability to make decisions in the time remaining before January of next year? Or, will he and his administrati [...]
2008-09-29 10:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1829JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/02): BUSH-ABBAS MEETING -
[...] Independent Ma'an online news agency publishes an article about the recent White House meeting between President Bush and Palestinian Authority President Abbas, written by political advisor to Abbas, Ahmad Abdul Rahman(10/02): "[I]t was just a protocol farewell meeting, nothing more, since M [...]
2008-10-02 09:07:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1830CORRECTED COPY - JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/02):
[...] Independent Ma'an online news agency publishes an article about the recent White House meeting between President Bush and Palestinian Authority President Abbas, written by political advisor to Abbas, Ahmad Abdul Rahman(10/02): "[I]t was just a protocol farewell meeting, nothing more, since M [...]
2008-10-02 09:09:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1833CORRECTED COPY - JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/03): THE
[...] Regular columnist Mohamad Yaghy opined in Al Ayyam under the title, "The peace process in the American elections" (10/03): "[T]he differences between the positions of the American presidential candidates regarding the [Palestinian-Israeli] peace process is somewhat unclear ....both of them hav [...]
2008-10-03 11:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1845JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/06): "WHAT IS LEFT OF PEACE
[...] Al Ayyam publishes an opinion piece by columnist Samih Shbib under the title, "A dialogue waiting to be clarified" (10/06): "Hamas has its own agenda [that does not include] the PA and PLO... such an agenda bets on the success of Iranian expansion and consequently, the resurgence of regional I [...]
2008-10-06 11:04:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1847JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/07): PALESTINIANS NOT
[...] Al Quds prints an editorial titled, "No positive signs preceding dialogue" (10/07): "If Hamas rejects the idea of a national consensus government and calls for a national government to be headed by them; and if Hamas insists that President Abbas' term ends on January 9, it is difficult to see [...]
2008-10-07 10:35:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1861JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/08): "THE END OF
[...] Al Ayyam independent daily prints an opinion piece written by Jawad Al Bashiti under the title, "The End to History" (10/08): "During feudal times, the church was the largest real estate owner, but during the... [end to] the history of neo-capitalism, the "Bush-Paulson" state has suddenly beco [...]
2008-10-08 10:25:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1871JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/10): INTERNAL PALESTINIAN
[...] Regular columnist Mohammad Yaghi opines in Al Ayyam independent daily under the title, "A dialogue to buy time" (10/10): "Many Arab countries see the controversy surrounding the Palestinian Authority Presidency as a continuation of the demise of the PLO. They are trying to avert the collapse [...]
2008-10-10 11:26:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1880JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/15): AN ASSESSMENT OF
[...] Al Quds editorial opines under the title, "Freezing negotiations is an Israeli strategy" (10/15): "Almost a year has elapsed since the Annapolis peace conference... an entire year that has totally failed to produce any real progress in the peace process. Reaching a peace agreement, as recomm [...]
2008-10-15 12:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1883JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/16): 20 YEARS AFTER THE COLD WAR: "ARAB FAILURE"
[...] Hani Hurani opines in Al Ayyam under the title "An increasingly chaotic world" (10/16): "In a nutshell, the image of the Arab world, 20 years after the end of the Cold War, suggests that it has been failed to face up to the challenges of economic and political reform and realize stable societ [...]
2008-10-16 10:30:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1901JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/17): "STALEMATE" IN
[...] Former Palestinian Authority Minister Hasan Asfour opines in Al Ayyam under the title, "National dialogue: Interim or final solution?" (10/17): "The current situation requires that there be a comprehensive document that provides answers... [to] the issues of electoral law and mechanisms... [ [...]
2008-10-17 12:24:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1911JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/20): THE GAZA CALM: "IN
[...] Bilal Al Hasan opines in Al Quds under the title "Acre events: Omen for a third Palestinian intifada"(10/20): "If the impetus for the two Palestinian intifadas came from the Israeli-Arab conflict... then a [third] Palestinian intifada launched from within the state of Israel will be based on d [...]
2008-10-20 11:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1919JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/22): THE ROAD MAP "HAS LOST
[...] Al Quds editorial is titled "Palestinians embrace their olives despite settler aggression" (10/22): "No one, regardless of his barbarism and cruelty, can separate the Palestinian from his olive tree, which he considers to be one of his sons... the world and so-called international community s [...]
2008-10-22 12:04:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1938JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/23): PALESTINIAN NATIONAL
[...] Abdullah Awwad opines in Al Ayyam under the title, "A calm JERUSALEM 00001938 002 OF 002 discourse in a noisy moment (10/23): "All that can be said about the rift between Hamas and Fatah or between the Islamic movement and the nationalist one... is that it is a conflict between the Wes [...]
2008-10-23 09:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1947JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/24): PALESTINIAN PESSIMISM
[...] Azmi Khawaja, Palestinian National Legislative Council Member, opines in Al Ayyam under the title, "Cairo dialogues approach a decisive moment"(10/24): "We must succeed in these talks, because their failure would threaten the Palestinian cause... Successful talks would mean an end to the Gaza [...]
2008-10-24 10:33:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1950JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/27): POLITICAL AND SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-27 08:56:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1956JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/28): PALESTINIAN CONDEMNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-28 07:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM196JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/05): SUICIDE BOMBINGS - "A
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-05 11:32:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1967JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/29): ARAB PEACE INITIATIVE -
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-29 07:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1974JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/30): IN-FIGHTING VS. FIGHTING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-30 11:16:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1983JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/31): BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS:
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-31 11:34:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1986JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/03): UN Obligations; US
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-03 12:24:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1991JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/04): "TIME FOR AMERICA TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-04 10:58:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1998JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/05): PALESTINIANS ARE LEADERS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-05 11:34:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2000JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/06): SPECULATION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-06 12:14:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2004JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/07): NO PEACE AGREEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-07 06:30:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2008JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/10): PALESTINIAN FAMILY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 09:40:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2021JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/12): PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-12 11:45:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2029JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/13): UNITY - "BEFORE IT IS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-13 11:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2042JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/14): ARAB RELUCTANCE TO PLAY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-14 11:12:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2048JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/17): URGENT CALLS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-17 11:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2052JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/18): AMERICA'S HONEYMOON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-18 10:10:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2058JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/19): PALESTINIANS SEE NEW
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-19 10:27:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2082JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/20): IRAQI SECURITY AGREEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-20 09:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2089JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/21): ISRAEL AND GAZA: "THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-21 11:45:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2103JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/24): RESISTING "SOFT" U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 12:08:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2117JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/25): "A NATIONAL UNITY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-25 15:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2128JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/26): "GLOATING OVER AMERICAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-26 08:44:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2164JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/28): POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-28 09:13:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2169JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/01): PALESTINIANS SEE NO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-01 11:40:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2175JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/02): ADMIRING THE U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-02 09:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2183JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/03): "EUROPE TO ACTIVATE ITS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-03 10:39:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2194JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/04): PALESTINIANS: ISRAEL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-04 10:48:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2196JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/05): HAMAS "WALKING INTO THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-05 10:49:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2210JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/09): THE OTHER ENEMY:
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-09 11:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2233JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/12): "GAZA SIEGE - PRELUDE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-12 08:46:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2238JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/15): EXPECTATIONS AND FEARS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 11:14:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2244JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/16): "EXTENDING ANNAPOLIS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-16 10:06:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2252JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/17): RUMORS OF A "MILITARY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-17 11:17:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2258JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/18): "ACTION - NOT JUST LIP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-18 10:58:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2266JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/19): THE TRUCE ENDS, WHAT
[...] Al Quds, in its main editorial entitled: "Iran ... a reconsideration of several stands is required" remarks that "It is time for the Arabs and Palestinians, with all their factions and movements, to realize that Iran has its own interests, including a special interest in avoiding an attack on i [...]
2008-12-19 07:54:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2278JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/22): OBSTACLES TO PEACE
[...] The main editorial in Al Quds, "Prisoners once again," opines: "It is time for the Palestinian side to reject the Israeli position that deals with prisoners of freedom as criminal prisoners...it is time for European mediators, who always demand the release of [abducted Israeli soldier Gilad] Sh [...]
2008-12-22 09:58:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2284JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/23): BRIEF TRUCE IN GAZA
[...] Mohamad Al Mubarak opines in Al Quds under the title "Will Rumsfeld escape or disappear?": "It is regrettable that the courts have so far not considered the war crimes committed by Rumsfeld, which led to the killing and displacement of millions of innocents and violated international laws and n [...]
2008-12-23 09:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2289JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/24): REPORTS ON ABBAS'
[...] Al Quds editorial "The complicated crisis in Gaza" opines: "The worst scenario that could happen [in Gaza], is the use of military force, especially the Israeli one, in an attempt to topple the Hamas movement, because such an attempt is a definite prescription for bloodshed, extreme loss of li [...]
2008-12-24 11:36:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2293JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/29): "Massacre" in Gaza
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-29 09:58:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2294JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/29): "Massacre" in Gaza
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-29 10:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2301JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/30): Calls for national unity
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-30 09:10:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2318JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/31): "Gaza is dying...what are
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-31 08:54:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM358PA SAYS DONORS FAILED TO DELIVER IN FEBRUARY, PA
[...] (SBU) At a meeting hosted by the World Bank on February 27, Ministry of Finance Director General Mazen Jadallah told a group of key donors that contributions to the Palestinian Authority (PA) have not materialized in February and the PA was running out of money. According to Jadallah, the PA [...]
2008-02-27 16:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECON PGOV KWBG
08JERUSALEM641JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/14): OLMERT: CHECKPOINTS ARE
[...] Independent Al-Quds opens its editorial page with, "Boycotting Carter and opening doors for Livni!" (04/14): "On her way to Qatar to address the Democracy Forum held in Doha, Israeli Foreign Minister Livni called upon Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel in order to encourage Pale [...]
2008-04-14 10:07:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM647JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/15): PALESTINIAN GRATITUDE TO
[...] Al-Quds independent carries an op-ed entitled, "Egypt's security, its control and authority over its territory is a red line [non-negotiable] for Palestinians" by Palestinian National Council Member Hatem Abu Shaban (4/15): Lately, we have been hearing strange noises from Palestinian groups c [...]
2008-04-15 10:10:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM654JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/16): NO IMPACT EXPECTED FROM
[...] Independent Al-Quds opens its editorial page with, "Abbas's tour and international efforts" (04/16): "the tour which President Abbas started [April 15] after meeting with Israeli Premier Olmert to discuss vital issues, will include Jordan, Moscow and Washington. The most important issues to di [...]
2008-04-16 08:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM674JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/17): THE IMPORTANCE OF
[...] Independent Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Talal Okal entitled, "There is only one exit... (04/17): "It is clear to everyone that the situation in Gaza is miserable. It has spiraled down into the heart of catastrophe where life has become unbearable... two years have passed si [...]
2008-04-17 09:49:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM678JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/18): NO MILITARY SOLUTION TO
[...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by Dr. Naji Sharab, a political science teacher in Gaza, entitled, "What does the world expect from Palestinians? (04/18):"... the Palestinian question is the only one that enjoys the support of international declarations about its rights, including the righ [...]
2008-04-18 10:13:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM685JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/21): ISRAELI INITIATIVES IN
[...] Independent Al-Quds, in its daily editorial entitled, "The truce... the ball is in the Israeli court," opined : "It is very clear from the statement of Hamas leader Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar that Hamas is more likely going to positively interact with the Egyptian suggestions for reaching a truce wi [...]
2008-04-21 11:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM694JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/22): DOUBTS ABOUT
[...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by PLO executive committee member Tayseer Khaled entitled: "Annapolis conference launched problematic negotiations and ongoing settlements" that read in part: "... While it is true that Annapolis brought the two sides, Palestinians and Israelis, back to nego [...]
2008-04-22 08:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM713JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/24): ABBAS DEMANDS THAT USG
[...] Independent Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by regular columnist Talal Okal entitled "There is only one way out" (4/24): "The outcome of the visit of former US president [Carter] does not deserve the media uproar that it created regarding its possible effects and consequences ... Carter asked Hamas t [...]
2008-04-24 09:23:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM716JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/25): POTENTIAL FOR PALESTINIAN
[...] Al-Quds carried an op-ed by Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zahri entitled "The American role in the Palestinian-Palestinian talks" (4/25) that stated: "Ending the Palestinian internal conflict is a dream for each and every honest Palestinian and Arab. Therefore it is not strange to see ongoing cal [...]
2008-04-25 07:48:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM721JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/28): "WHAT IF BUSH LEAVES
[...] Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Jawad Al-Bashiti entitled, "What if Bush leaves and takes with him the promise and vision and the map?" (4/28): "...President Bush did not show President Abbas anything during their latest meeting at the White House that gives Abbas optimism about [...]
2008-04-28 10:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM724FAYYAD TO DONORS: ISRAEL "GROSSLY UNDERMINING" PA
[...] (SBU) Summary. PM Fayyad used the final Ramallah gathering of donors before the May 2 AHLC meeting to argue that the GOI has not met its commitments to improve access and movement in the West Bank. At the same time, he said, the IDF's continued security operations undermine his efforts to d [...]
2008-04-29 08:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL EAID IS
08JERUSALEM725PA FISCAL UPDATE: WESTERN DONORS CARRYING THE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Though donors have provided more budget support than expected to date in 2008, absent new pledges the PA faces a significant financing shortfall later this year. The IMF expects the PA will fall USD 400 million short of its 2008 budget requirements, a gap that will increase to c [...]
2008-04-29 08:58:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID ECON KWBG IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM726JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/29): VIOLENCE IN GAZA AND
[...] In its main editorial entitled, "Why are women and children being killed?", independent Al-Quds opined (4/29): "The Palestinian public may have its own criticisms of Hamas, but the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and West Bank alike make one wonder about the Israeli logic. Israel not [...]
2008-04-29 09:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM734JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/30): "DISAPPOINTMENT AND
[...] Official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida carries an op-ed entitled, "Resistance and the Evolution of Peace ideas" (4/30): "... lately, [there has been] disappointment and pessimism expressed over the outcomes of the meeting between [Palestinian] President Abbas and the President of the U.S. George Bus [...]
2008-04-30 10:01:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM740JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/01): PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF
[...] Independent Al-Quds ran its daily editorial entitled "Which map?!" (5/01): "Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni... presented the Palestinian negotiation team... an Israeli vision of a final JERUSALEM 00000740 002 OF 002 agreement [as] a serious, official position presented through the [...]
2008-05-01 08:58:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM747JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/02): IN PRAISE OF FAYYAD'S
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "Palestinian workers on their day" (5/02): "It is important during the celebration of international workers' day to recommit to the importance of development projects for industry, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure that allow our peo [...]
2008-05-02 09:58:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM751JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/05):
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "What is wanted is core Israeli changes on the ground" (5/05): "Once again, Secretary Rice returned to the region and we heard her say... [the] SIPDIS exact same comments that we heard her say during her many previous visits. She talke [...]
2008-05-05 10:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM754JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/06): GUESSING AT WHAT PROGRESS
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "Negotiations... lost time" (5/06): "After meeting with Abu Mazen [Abbas] and heads of the Palestinian and Israeli negotiation teams, Secretary Rice extended her visit to the region in order to continue talks with the Israeli side. We hav [...]
2008-05-06 09:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM759JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/07): PREDICTING THE NEXT 60
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "They are ignoring our catastrophe" (5/07): "... upon the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Israel, we should remember that negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis have reached a dead end. This is because of extensive settle [...]
2008-05-07 07:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM768JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/09): CALLS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "Total support for the security forces"(5/08): "We all know that Palestinian security forces have started a gradual deployment to several West Bank cities that faces great difficulty. We also know that Israeli forces act... as though the [...]
2008-05-09 09:52:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM789JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/12): LEBANON - IRANIAN EFFORTS
[...] Al-Quds independent carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Faisal Abu-Khadra entitled, "Sixty years after the catastrophe... Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are at a stand-still" (5/12): "Almost fifteen years have passed since the Palestinian-Israeli agreement [Oslo] and Israel is still the on [...]
2008-05-12 09:43:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM810JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/13): BUSH WILL FIND THE REGION
[...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by Tayseer Khaled, member of the PLO Executive Committee and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine entitled, "The commemoration of the catastrophe is the wrong time to visit" (5/13): "President Bush is on his way to the region, which is exper [...]
2008-05-13 09:08:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM820JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/14): CONTRASTING ISRAELI
[...] Independent Al-Quds ran its daily editorial entitled "We suggest that Bush visit a refugee camp" (5/14): "Bush will arrive in Israel today to participate in the celebration of its founding... Other leaders and European presidents will follow him to the same JERUSALEM 00000820 002 OF 002 [...]
2008-05-14 08:31:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM835JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/15): "SETTLEMENTS: THE NEW
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by columnist Sulaiman Al-Wari entitled, "Settlements are the new Palestinian catastrophe" (5/15): "On the sixtieth anniversary of the catastrophe, Israel remains the only occupying country [power] in this modern time. It has not assumed its responsibilit [...]
2008-05-15 11:07:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM840JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/16): IGNORING THE NAKBA
[...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Bias even towards the significance of the catastrophe" (5/16): "... while Israeli and international media are full of news about the JERUSALEM 00000840 002 OF 002 Israeli celebration of its 60th independence anniversary, the Pale [...]
2008-05-16 10:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM845JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/19): PALESTINIANS: BUSH
[...] Independent Al-Quds carried its daily editorial entitled "Important dots above many words!" (5/19): "...The American President repeated in his speech [May 18], in Sharm Al-Sheikh that a solution is possible before the end of the year. He called upon Israel to ease the suffering of Palestinians [...]
2008-05-19 08:47:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM857JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/20): CRITICISM OF BUSH KNESSET
[...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs an editorial entitled, "Bush made the life of moderate Arabs difficult... even impossible" (5/20): "May God help the moderate Arabs who were frustrated by Bush's speech before the Israeli Knesset that ignored the suffering of Palestinians and the peace process, as wel [...]
2008-05-20 09:50:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM869JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/21): "THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION:
[...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs an editorial entitled, "The Torah speech of Bush at the Knesset and the secularism of the American State," by Muhammad Shaker Abdullah (5/21): "The United States was established... by groups who were escaping religious persecution in Europe in the seventeenth century. [...]
2008-05-21 10:32:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM889JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/22): "PALESTINE INVESTMENT
[...] In its main editorial, independent daily Al-Quds opined under the title, "Investment Conference... between reality and expectation" (05/22): "There is no doubt that having the Palestinian Investment Conference happen is a success in itself, and that is not a stretch of the truth or exaggerati [...]
2008-05-22 09:42:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM907JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/23): "UNLIKELY BUT NECESSARY
[...] Regular columnist of independent Al-Ayyam, Mohammed Yaghi, argues under the headline, "Quick Notes on an Unsuccessful Policy" (05/23/08); "This [Bush] Administration is completely different from all of its predecessors. It has considerably damaged the international standing of the United Stat [...]
2008-05-23 10:19:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM909JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/27): The Peace Process - a
[...] Under the headline, "Carter's Statements" (05/27),the daily editorial in the independent Al-Quds opined, "Former U.S. President JERUSALEM 00000909 002 OF 002 Jimmy Carter will be remembered in history as the Godfather of the first Arab-Israeli peace process, for which he won a Nobel Pea [...]
2008-05-27 10:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM910JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/28): THE FAILURE OF FATAH's
[...] Veteran columnist Hani Habib opines in independent Al-Ayyam under the title, "Revolutionary Council... and Fayyad's Government" (05/28): "The 25th Fatah [party] convention that just concluded could have been the most important and critical convention of all, since it was held in troubled times [...]
2008-05-28 08:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM911JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/29): WAITING ON AMERICAN AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 11:18:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM915JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/30): WHO WILL BE THE NEXT US
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-30 11:18:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM923JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/05): ISRAELI AND US ELECTIONS
[...] Independent daily Al-Ayyam runs an op-ed by veteran columnist Talal Okal entitled, "After Barak... Olmert loses his chance" (6/02): "...Olmert cannot go to Washington and ask for its support in the middle of his current crisis unless he achieves some progress in his meeting with Palestinian A [...]
2008-06-02 10:56:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM932JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/03): PALESTINIAN PESSIMISM IN
[...] Independent daily Al-Ayyam runs an op-ed by veteran columnist Muhannid Abd-Alhamid entitled, "Do we have other options?" (6/03): "After the American and Israeli performance, who dares be optimistic about reaching a political solution that will end the Israeli occupation and bring international [...]
2008-06-03 11:16:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM938JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/04): A CALL FOR A ONE-STATE
[...] Independent daily Al-Ayyam runs an op-ed by veteran columnist Hani Habib, entitled "Routine or rescue?" (6/04): "As always, when [Palestinian] President Abbas meets with [Israeli Premier] Olmert, we hear, read and see comments, criticism and repeated statements that contain nothing new... End [...]
2008-06-04 10:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM945JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/05): 41ST ANNIVERSARY OF 1967
[...] Veteran columnist Talal 'Ukal comments in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Not Much Time Is Left," (6/5): "It is safe to say that [Israeli Prime Minister] Olmert has achieved the goals of his [Washington] visit. I I think those goals can be summarized in the following two points: The [...]
2008-06-05 11:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM977JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/06): UNITY TALKS CANNOT
[...] Veteran columnist Mohammad Yaghi comments in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Dialogue is primarily about the political agenda" (6/6): "President Abbas' invitation to start a national dialogue and end the state of division is very timely. There is a belief in Ramallah that Israel is [...]
2008-06-06 11:51:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM979PREPARATORY MEETING FOR BERLIN CONFERENCE ON
[...] SUMMARY. Palestinian Authority (PA) representatives briefed proposals for police/justice sector donor funding for the June 24 Berlin conference at a German-chaired, June 5 meeting in Jericho. The representatives said the proposals are consistent with the Palestinian Reconstruction and Develo [...]
2008-06-06 14:24:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG IS PGOV PREL EAID
08JERUSALEM983JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/10): DIALOGUE - ONLY WAY OUT
[...] Ali Abu Hilal, member of the Palestinian National Council, commented in independent Al-Quds under the headline, "In Order to End Internal Division and Achieve National Unity," (6/10): "It is important to point out that real national unity... is one that is based on a shared Qatform of policy an [...]
2008-06-10 09:57:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM993JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/11): POSITIVE REACTION TO
[...] Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Hamada Faranah entitled, "Abu Mazen [Abbas] will stay his course" (6/11): "...The power of Abu Mazen lies in the clarity of his positions regarding what he considers to be in the true interest of his people. Therefore, he did not hesitate to state [...]
2008-06-11 09:47:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM998JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/12): THE DIFFICULTY OF
[...] Al-Ayyam independent daily carries an op-ed by columnist Talal Okal entitled, "We need a change in thinking" (6/12): "In the midst of current events related to the Palestinian situation and its relation to the external world and the Israeli policy of aggression, and the severe consequences of c [...]
2008-06-12 06:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08KABUL102AF: Afghanistan Energy Projects: Year-End Update
[...] (SBU) The following is a short update on the current status of some of the most high-profile USG energy projects in Afghanistan: 2. (SBU) 100 MW KABUL POWER PLANT "GEN SETS" - Despite earlier problems with squatters on the project site, site clearing is underway. Topographical and aerial su [...]
2008-01-09 02:06:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF CH
08KABUL1047AF: Aynak Copper Mine Technical Negotiations Complete.
[...] (U) Summary: Technical negotiations associated with the Aynak Copper Mine project have concluded successfully. The Afghan deposit is estimated to be among the largest in the world and is expected to bring in over USD 450 million in yearly revenues to the government when it begins operation in [...]
2008-04-28 11:22:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EPET EFIN ETRD ENRG KPWR EAID AF CH
08KABUL1056Safi Aviation's Future in Afghanistan Uncertain
[...] (SBU) Econoff met April 24 with Rami Alhmad, Dubai-based managing director of privately held Safi Group and Safi Afghan Airways. Alhmad fretted that Safi's business prospects were perilous but possibly salvageable with a full reorganization. He said that Safi is currently losing USD 12,000-15, [...]
2008-04-29 09:44:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR PGOV AF
08KABUL1064FOREIGN MINISTER SPANTA ON PAKISTAN, IRAN, AND
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Spanta told the Ambassador on April 22 that he would use his meetings in Islamabad the following day to underline Afghanistan's support for Pakistan's new government and explore opportunities for concrete projects (dealing especially with trade and economic cooperation) to [...]
2008-04-29 12:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ECON IR PK AF
08KABUL108AF: Afghan Ministry of Mines: Big Plans for 2008.
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Mines Adel told EconOff he intends to shepherd several natural resource tenders, including oil, gas and iron ore deposits, through the biding process this coming year. The Ministry intends to tender two blocks for commercial gas exploration and one for oil explorati [...]
2008-01-09 09:43:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EPET EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID AF CH
08KABUL1150LOCAL GOVERNANCE STRATEGIC WORKPLAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) on May 4 released its Five-Year Strategic Work Plan, a roadmap for provincial, district, and municipal governance. The plan focuses on four core functions: policy development, institutional development, participatory gover [...]
2008-05-11 07:29:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV AF
08KABUL1314SRSG EIDE'S MAY 19-21 MEETINGS IN TEHRAN
[...] (C) Summary: During UN Special Representative Kai Eide's mid-May visit to Tehran, senior Iranian government interlocutors denied supporting Afghan insurgents and reiterated their opposition to reconciliation with the Taliban. Ahmadinejad's main concerns are establishment of a timetable for th [...]
2008-05-31 12:35:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL IR AF
08KABUL1410 FLOTUS VISIT HIGHLIGHTS AFGHAN PROGRESS
[...] (U) The June 8 visit of First Lady Laura Bush to Afghanistan highlighted themes of critical interest to both Afghans and Americans. Mrs. Bush's visit to Kabul and to the province of Bamyan illustrates our assessment that important progress is being made in many parts of the country. In thos [...]
2008-06-10 06:10:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PGOV PREL PHUM AF
08KABUL1481AF: UPDATE ON USG ENERGY PROJECTS
[...] (SBU) The following cable provides an update on USG energy sector projects in Afghanistan. 2. (SBU) KABUL 100 MW GENERATOR SETS (GENSETS) - Work on the site continues apace and the contractor appears to be on schedule. Arrangements for the transportation of the generator sets themselves to [...]
2008-06-16 13:33:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL1482KARZAI THREATENS PAKISTAN AND MEANS IT
[...] (C//REL UK, CAN) Summary: A Palace advisor implied Karzai would not retract his June 16 threat to strike at insurgents harboring in Afghanistan. The MFA said Karzai had not directed his threat against Pakistan's sovereignty or territorial integrity, but against the Inter-Services Intelligence [...]
2008-06-16 15:39:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PTER PREL PK AF
08KABUL1493 Afghanistan's Refugee Absorption Reaches Saturation
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since January 1 of this year, 143,737 Afghan refugees - the vast majority from Pakistan - have repatriated to Afghanistan with assistance from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). While the numbers are relatively low compared to recent years, Afghanistan' [...]
2008-06-19 06:46:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PGOV PREL PK IR AF
08KABUL1581Afghan-Tajik Electric Power PPA Negotiations Short
[...] (SBU) Summary: Unexpectedly, when the Afghan Minister of Energy and Water Ismail Khan arrived in Dushanbe June 20 to sign the Afghan-Tajik Power Purchase Agreement (PPA),a component part of Afghanistan's North East Power System (NEPS) project, he insisted on a lower electricity purchase price [...]
2008-06-25 10:50:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL1644AF: Uzbek power situation not as bleak, other PPA's on
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Economy Jalil Shams told donors the Uzbeks have begun manufacturing components needed for the Afghan-Uzbek power line. He believes the project will be completed by October 2008. Shams revealed a "backup" plan to import an extra 43 MW of Uzbek power to Kabul along a [...]
2008-07-02 11:31:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL1709AFGHANISTAN - JCMB VIII welcomes SRSG Kai Eide,
[...] Summary. On July 6, the eighth meeting of the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB-VIII) welcomed the co-chairmanship of Kai Eide, the newly-arrived Special Representative of the UN Secretary General. Minister of Finance (MOF) Ahady announced the Government of the Islamic Republic of [...]
2008-07-08 09:02:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL PHUM ENRG EAIR AF
08KABUL1816SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL REED TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Afghanistan remains a complex counterinsurgency environment, in which maintaining strong U.S. support for the Afghan government and robust U.S. leadership of international community assistance efforts is critical to ensuring that momentum for victory remains with us. Press reporting em [...]
2008-07-19 11:52:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON PTER EAID AF
08KABUL1817 Iran: Another Wave of Deportations?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Per a July 12 letter from the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MORR) office in Tehran, Iran will start deporting 85,000 Afghans at the beginning of the Persian month of Asad (July 22). Iran has already deported over 166,000 Afghans since January 1, 2008, mostly yo [...]
2008-07-19 12:30:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PREL PHUM IR AF
08KABUL1924FOREIGN PRESSURE BACKFIRES ON KAMBAKHSH APPEAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. European governments are rethinking their strategy of pressuring President Karzai directly in support of Sayad Parwez Kambakhsh, who is appealing his death sentence for distributing literature found by a local court to be offensive to Islam (ref A). With many observers pessimi [...]
2008-07-26 07:26:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL AF EU
08KABUL1973ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORT GAINING TRACTION
[...] (U) President Karzai and his team have taken several positive steps to combat corruption in the wake of the Paris Donors Conference, including publishing a comprehensive anti-corruption strategy and establishing a wholly new watch-dog office against future corruption. Encouragingly, a June [...]
2008-07-31 04:31:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV AF
08KABUL1992SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL REID TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Afghanistan remains a complex counterinsurgency environment, in which maintaining strong U.S. support for the Afghan government and robust U.S. leadership of international community assistance efforts is critical to ensuring that momentum for victory remains with us. Press reporting em [...]
2008-08-03 11:02:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON PTER EAID AFIN OREP
08KABUL2189AF: UPDATE ON USG ENERGY PROJECTS
[...] (U) The following cable provides a current status update on USG energy sector projects in Afghanistan. 2. (U) KABUL 100 MW GENERATOR SETS (GENSETS) - All work at the site is progressing apace with no significant delays. Equipment and parts are arriving daily, with some 70 pieces already at [...]
2008-08-19 05:57:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL2269PRT BAMYAN: MINISTER IGNITES HOPE FOR ENERGY, IRON
[...] (U) Summary: Minister of Mines Muhammad Ibrahim Adel concluded a week-long visit to Bamyan to explore the feasibility of a coal driven power plant and conduct a site visit to the Haji Gak iron deposit. Accompanied by a team of international and national legal and technical experts, Minister A [...]
2008-08-25 05:46:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EPET EFIN ETRD ENRG KPWR EAID AF CH
08KABUL241FRENCH ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN: WINDOW FOR HIGH LEVEL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French Charge has suggested that, if FM Kouchner returns to Afghanistan before the March NATO Foreign Ministerial, he should meet with high-level Americans and travel to Kandahar to see how other Allies are managing in the South. Paris is thinking about an expanded French rol [...]
2008-01-29 12:58:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PREL FR AF
08KABUL2546AFGHANISTAN: UPDATE ON USG AND OTHER ENERGY PROJECTS -
[...] (SBU) Summary. Over the past six weeks, long and meandering negotiations on Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Afghanistan's neighbors have been successfully concluded, and positive developments with regard to Kajaki, the 100MW GENSET plant, and related distribution systems have occurred. Cu [...]
2008-09-17 11:50:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL2746U.S., U.K., FRENCH AND GERMAN AMBASSADORS DISCUSS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 9, French Ambassador Jean de Ponton d'Amecourt met with U.S., British and German Ambassadors to discuss his October 6 briefing by President Karzai on the recent reconciliation meetings in Saudi Arabia. The Ambassadors agreed that the publicity and lack of clarity surro [...]
2008-10-12 12:12:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER AF
08KABUL2756KARZAI SHUFFLES KEY CABINET POSITIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Karzai announced a long-anticipated Cabinet shuffle Oct. 11, making six key changes in his government. Reactions to these changes ranged from cautious optimism from the international community to healthy skepticism from opposition political leaders. State-owned media [...]
2008-10-14 02:42:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KDEM AF
08KABUL2797AFGHAN OFFICIALS AIR CONCERNS TO SIGAR ON USAGE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Arnold Fields heard two common themes during meetings with the GIRoA Auditor General and senior Afghan MOD and MOI officials: A) that there is insufficient coordination between Afghanistan and the Donor Community, inc [...]
2008-10-20 02:27:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KWAC AF
08KABUL2827MINERALS ABOUND IN AFGHANISTAN, AN UPDATE ON THE SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. A viable engine of economic growth, the mineral sector in Afghanistan is striving for advancement step by step. At times, Afghanistan's steps are firm, promoting modernization, other times they are wobbly or haphazard, resulting in retraction. In recent months, Afghanistan rec [...]
2008-10-22 08:50:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID EINV PGOV AF
08KABUL3085AFGHANISTAN: UPDATE ON ENERGY PROJECTS - FUEL SHORTAGE AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. Lackluster progress and recent setbacks in the energy sector underscore the difficulties of working in Afghanistan. In particular, critical lack of Afghan government planning and possible corruption, combined with very limited discretionary resources and competing demands, have [...]
2008-11-30 13:10:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL3276AFGHANISTAN GEMSTONE OUTLOOK IN 2009 AND BEYOND SHINES
[...] (U) Summary. Worldwide demand for colored gemstones has increased in recent years. Such a development bodes well for Afghanistan, a land with an abundance of emeralds and rubies, two gemstones that rival diamonds in exclusivity and value. The gemstone industry in Afghanistan suffers from a l [...]
2008-12-23 12:57:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL388AF - Request for input for New Required Reports to Congress
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Kabul's response to Reftel, which requests input for 2 new reports to Congress on energy. Paragraph 2 offers a brief overview of the energy situation in Afghanistan and U.S. objectives. Paragraphs 3,4,5 and 6 contain the Embassy's responses to questions A, B, C an [...]
2008-02-18 06:06:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL409SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL BIDEN TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Last year produced solid gains on the battlefield against the insurgency, on the economy, on local governance and on reinvigorated army and police train and equip programs. These gains reflect a surge in U.S. assistance in FY 2007 (more than in FY 2002-2006 combined) as well as a more [...]
2008-02-19 09:32:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON PTER EAID AF
08KABUL455JCMB VII - TOKYO POLITICAL DIRECTOR'S MEETING ON AFGANISTAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On February 5 in Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Komura, Afghan Foreign Minister Spanta, and Acting Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Asplund kicked off the annual Political Director (PD)-level [...]
2008-02-24 12:25:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON OTRA PREL AF
08KABUL461AFGHANISTAN - JCMB VII DISCUSSES AN INTEGRATED STRATEGY AND
[...] SUMMARY: Convened in Tokyo, Japan, the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) held its second session at the Political Directors' level (JCMB-PD) on February 5, and its seventh regular session (JCMB-VII) on February 6, 2008. The Political Directors considered a discussion paper that [...]
2008-02-25 05:30:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID OTRA SNAR PREL AF
08KABUL530AF: UPDATE ON AYNAK COPPER MINE NEGOTIATIONS, PLANS TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS THE AFGHAN MINISTRY OF MINES (MOM),CHINA METALLURGICAL GROUP (CMG) AND WORLD BANK-HIRED CONTRACT ADVISOR GUSTAFSON AND CO. FROM COLORADO, HAVE ARRIVED AT THE FINAL STAGE OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE USD 2.4 BILLION DEVELOPMENT OF THE AYNAK COPPER DEPOSIT. ALTHOUG [...]
2008-03-03 12:52:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EPET EFIN ETRD ENRG KPWR EAID AF CH
08KABUL578AF: Update on USG Energy Projects.
[...] (U) The following cable provides a current status update on USG energy sector projects in Afghanistan. 2. (U) KABUL 100 MW GENERATOR SETS (GENSETS) - Delivery of the first six (of total 18) generators for the project is expected in May 2008. While progress is on track with manufacturing, w [...]
2008-03-06 07:59:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL651AF: Current Afghan preparedness for ROZ implementation
[...] (SBU) This message is keyed to reftel questions about Afghanistan's preparedness to implement the Reconstruction Opportunity Zone (ROZ) initiative after it is passed by the U.S. Congress. Although the Afghan government has been slow in its preparations and lacks capacity to implement many of t [...]
2008-03-13 14:22:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL674AF: AFGHANS REQUESTING POSTPONEMENT OF APRIL 24-25 REGIONAL
[...] (U) On March 16, Mr. Enayatullah Nabiel, Director General for Economic Affairs at the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Econ Counselor and Econoff that he had just met with the Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan to request a postponement of the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference (R [...]
2008-03-17 12:03:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EFIN EMIN KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KABUL814AF: Japanese Interested in Funding Training of Afghan
[...] (SBU) On March 30 the Charge, accompanied by EconCouns, reviewed with visiting Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Ken Sasae and Japanese Ambassador to Afghanistan Hideo Sato Japan's plans for assistance to Afghanistan. Sasae reaffirmed Japan's commitment to completing its portion of the Kandah [...]
2008-04-01 10:09:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PGOV AF FR
08KABUL877POLITICAL AGREEMENT REACHED ON SEPARATE ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary. The prolonged political debate between Parliament and the Palace ended this week with an agreement to hold separate Presidential (in 2009) and Parliamentary (in 2010) elections using a Single Non- Transferable Voting (SNTV) system for the parliamentary elections. President Kar [...]
2008-04-10 13:38:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV AF
08KABUL984AF: UPDATE ON USG ENERGY PROJECTS
[...] (U) The following cable provides a current status update on USG energy sector projects in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRoA). 2. (U) KABUL 100 MW GENERATOR SETS (GENSETS) - The IRoA transferred another USD 10 million to the U.S. Treasury, completing the Afghan Government's USD 20 mi [...]
2008-04-22 13:58:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV AF
08KAMPALA1462UGANDANS ATTEND ALL-NIGHT ELECTION EVENT - AND MANY OTHERS
[...] Summary: Mission Kampala's all-night Election Event on November 4th and 5th marked a high point in a robust series of election-themed programs. Guests from government, politics, civil society, academia, the media, business and the diplomatic community gathered in a festive atmosphere at The Sh [...]
2008-11-06 13:29:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM UG
08KATHMANDU403NEPAL NOT SENDING DELEGATE TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE EPG
[...] The Government of Nepal (GON) is unlikely to send any delegates to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Exercise Planning Group (EPG) to be held in Paris, France on April 15. The Deputy Chief of Mission extended invitation as requested in Ref B to Foreign Secretary Acharya on Ap [...]
2008-04-11 09:18:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER FR NP
08KHARTOUM101MINAWI OUTLINES OBJECTIVES FOR U.S. TRIP, BRIEFS
[...] (S) Senior Assistant to the President and Chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Minawi is enthusiastic about a visit to Washington in the near future and has requested that the trip focus on four themes: concrete support for the military wing of the SLM and broadening the persp [...]
2008-01-24 09:44:00Embassy KhartoumSECRETPREL PGOV SU CD LY
08KHARTOUM1065DISAPPOINTED GNU INTENDS TO ENGAGE WITH ICC, WANTS
[...] (C) Summary: The NCP plans to work with the SPLM to confront the ICC on legal grounds while simultaneously announcing a political initiative to solve the Darfur crisis, possibly naming FVP Salva Kiir to a committee that will develop and pursue the strategy. President Bashir is also sending FM [...]
2008-07-15 14:50:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1067JEM AND SLA/U SHOW INCREASED COOPERATION IN GENEVA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Europe-based representatives of SLA/Unity and JEM met in Geneva last week at meetings hosted by the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue ostensibly to discuss greater security for humanitarian operations in Darfur, but the workshop served as a springboard for mutual recognition and s [...]
2008-07-16 09:57:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1117PRESIDENT BASHIR DANCES THROUGH DARFUR TO A
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Al-Bashir used a whirlwind visit to the capitals of Darfur's three states July 23-24 to highlight a total rejection of possible ICC indictments against him. He also offered his most inclusive and personal vision ever of a peaceful and united Darfur while freely admitti [...]
2008-07-27 12:37:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALKPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM112DARFUR: THE PEACE PROCESS ON THE EVE OF THE AU
[...] (C) Fifteen months after the Addis Ababa agreement of November 2006, the Darfur peace process has not advanced. Disarray within and among the rebel movements has confounded UN and AU mediators, alleviated any pressure on Khartoum to make political concessions, and stalled negotiations. No via [...]
2008-01-25 11:44:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1157EU SPECIAL ENVOY SEES OPPORTUNITY IN KHARTOUM'S
[...] (C) The European Union's Special Envoy for Sudan, Torben Brylle, sees both opportunity and peril in what he described as "Khartoum's new flexibility" in the wake of an announcement by ICC Prosecutor Ocampo about indicting President Al-Bashir for war crimes. In a meeting with Charge Fernandez [...]
2008-08-03 07:53:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1203FOREIGN MINISTER ALOR URGES P-3 ENGAGEMENT WITH
[...] (C) Summary: FM Deng Alor requested an urgent meeting with CDA Fernandez August 6 to brief him on the latest developments on the ICC and Abyei. On the ICC, the SPLM has urged President Bashir to "engage with the ICC now" as well as with the P-3 in order to seek a possible deal on deferring th [...]
2008-08-07 15:04:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1361BASSOLE: SUDAN SHOULD NOW MAKE THE FIRST MOVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 4, the UN/AU's Chief Mediator to Darfur, Djibril Bassole told CDA Fernandez that the Government of Sudan (GoS) should take the first step to solve the Darfur crisis. According to Bassole, a positive unilateral move by the government on any number of security and hu [...]
2008-09-05 09:30:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1410MEDIA REACTION: THE BRITISH AND FRENCH WILL SAVE BASHIR?
[...] (U) SUMMARY: An article published by Alex Duval in the September 14 edition of The Guardian (UK) entitled "British efforts to block the ICC indictment of President Al-Bashir" has emboldened the state-influenced press of Khartoum. The article made front-page news September 15 and 16, with a n [...]
2008-09-17 10:30:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1411MEDIA REACTION: THE BRITISH AND FRENCH WILL SAVE BASHIR?
[...] (U) SUMMARY: An article published by Alex Duval in the September 14 edition of The Guardian (UK) entitled "British efforts to block the ICC indictment of President Al-Bashir" has emboldened the state-influenced press of Khartoum. The article made front-page news September 15 and 16, with a n [...]
2008-09-17 10:30:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1490NCP/SPLM DISCUSSIONS ON DARFUR AND ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) The NCP and SPLM have been negotiating over the past few days on electoral issues as well as a package of concessions that the GNU could offer on Darfur as part of the Sudan People,s Initiative, NCP insider Yehia Bebiker told polchief October 6. Bebiker accompanied Vice President Taha t [...]
2008-10-07 10:04:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1504CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVES MAY MISS THE BOAT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Two Darfurian civil society groups are separately working to combine existing civil society proposals with the hope of developing a unified, comprehensive view of Darfurians on how to resolve the crisis in their region, although neither anticipates its work will be complete befo [...]
2008-10-09 15:26:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1510SE WILLIAMSON TELLS KHARTOUM TO MAKE A RADICAL
[...] (C) Summary: The GOS must make a radical adjustment in its approach to Darfur, SE Williamson told regime officials in Khartoum. Peace conferences and theatrics are fine, but what is urgently required is a deal with keys rebels, and implementation of that deal. Williamson blasted the NCP for [...]
2008-10-13 07:01:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1512SE WILLIAMSON MEETINGS WITH SOUTHERN SUDANESE
[...] (C) US Special Envoy to Sudan Ambassador Richard Williamson visited the southern Sudanese towns of Rumbek and Juba on 7 October to meet with Government of National Unity (GNU) First Vice President and Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) President Salva Kiir Mayardit, the Sudan Liberation Peopl [...]
2008-10-13 09:47:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV UNSC KPKO AU SU
08KHARTOUM1533CHARGE'S MEETING WITH UNAMID SPECIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to UNAMID Joint Special Representative Adada, relations with the GoS, narrowly-defined, have turned the corner and UNAMID deployment is accelerating, with 14,000 peacekeepers expected to be on the ground by year,s end. He agreed that harassment of humanitarian NGOs in [...]
2008-10-17 12:49:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM155WHERE THE CENSUS MEETS DARFUR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN is deeply concerned about the GNU's ability to conduct a census in Darfur. Rebel groups and IDPs are resisting the census due to a deep distrust of the government in Khartoum and a lack of understanding about the census. Moreover, the Presidency has yet to officially rec [...]
2008-02-01 10:15:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1586WEST DARFUR GOVERNOR:THE FUR TRIBE IS FIGHTING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, former Darfur rebel and current Governor of West Darfur Abulgasim Imam told CDA Fernandez that the Fur tribe is defending itself against three hostile groups, the Government of Sudan, Arab militias, and the Zaghawa tribe. Imam acknowledged the failure of both the [...]
2008-10-28 08:34:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1593CHADIAN REBELS CONTINUE SEARCH FOR A LEADER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, Abaker Tollimi, a UFDD Khartoum-based representative and second in command to Mahamat Nouri confirmed that the Chadian rebel leadership is under tremendous pressure from the Government of Sudan to unite, but internal division, personal ambition and a struggle for [...]
2008-10-29 11:21:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1607DARFUR PEACE PROCESS UPDATE - BASSOLE AND GOQ APPEAR MORE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole urged Qatar to focus first on the necessary preparations for negotiations and not on unrealistic dates for negotiations, according to senior representatives from the AU/UN's Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST). JMST contacts emphasized that the fo [...]
2008-11-02 14:37:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1613JEM SENIOR LEADERSHIP ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Members of JEM senior leadership told poloff in meetings in London on October 28-29 that JEM remains open to negotiations. However, they noted JEM is withholding judgment on the Qatar Initiative until it obtains more information about its nature and scope. While predictably skept [...]
2008-11-04 10:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1682A/S FRAZER'S MEETINGS WITH NCP OFFICIALS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a round-table meeting followed by a dinner at the CDA's residence, several leading members of the National Congress Party told A/S Frazer that the GNU has made significant progress in implementing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),and pointed to Abyei as the only par [...]
2008-11-18 07:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1694UNAMID DEPLOYMENT AND PEACE PROCESS UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: UNAMID will meet sixty-percent deployment by the end of 2008, but will not have increased its operational capacity even with the additional troops, until they can be deployed to the field. Eighty-percent deployment by March 31 is not possible, and UNAMID has backed away from prese [...]
2008-11-23 12:38:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM1764DECEMBER 7 DARFUR UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the last push before the long Eid Al-Adha holiday (December 8-12),Darfur rebels, signatories to the DPA, and regional players all shared their views regarding the peace process, the potential for a ceasefire or monitoring mechanism for violence in Darfur, and the lack of DPA [...]
2008-12-07 10:30:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM178TFCD01: FRANCE LIMITS ENGAGEMENT WITH KHARTOUM
[...] (C) France has not engaged with the Sudanese Government at any level since the Chadian opposition attempted to overthrow President Deby's regime in recent days, French First Secretary Arnaud Suquet told Poloff on February 4. French SIPDIS Ambassador Christine Robichon has received no instru [...]
2008-02-05 11:13:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS KPKO SU CD LY FR
08KHARTOUM1829DARFUR REBEL UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur's rebels remain fundamentally divided according to what their leaders told poloff during a December 14-18 visit to Ndjamena, Chad. The rebel leaders claim that JEM, while rich in vehicles and equipment, lacks fighters and the popular support of the people of Darfur. A [...]
2008-12-22 14:45:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC CD SU
08KHARTOUM269WEST DARFUR: SAF AND JEM CLASHES WORSEN ALREADY FRAGILE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since December 2007, renewed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in areas north of El Geneina, West Darfur, have increased insecurity, limited humanitarian access to the area, and displaced at least 56,000 residents, accord [...]
2008-02-25 09:19:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU
08KHARTOUM280S/E WILLIAMSON CLARIFIES FACTS OF UNAMID
[...] (C) In a February 25 meeting with Chinese Envoy Liu Guijin in Khartoum, S/E Williamson reported that he had asked Khartoum to take practical steps to facilitate the deployment of UNAMID and "get more boots on the ground" in Darfur. He urged China to convey to Khartoum the importance of expedi [...]
2008-02-26 18:08:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SU CH
08KHARTOUM318"DARFUR PARTNERS GROUP" DISCUSS SUDAN CONSORTIUM,
[...] (C) At a recent meeting of the Darfur Partners Group in Khartoum, Western Ambassadors discussed the possibility of adding sessions on Darfur and the Sudan-Chad conflict to the agenda for the Sudan Consortium tentatively scheduled for April in Paris. The UN/AU mediation team provided an update [...]
2008-03-04 05:24:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID KPKO UN AU SU CD FR
08KHARTOUM352AEC PLENARY: CONCERN ON ABYEI YIELDS VERIFICATION TEAM
[...] (U) Summary: Newly-appointed AEC Chair Ambassador (Sir) Derek Plumbly chaired his first plenary meeting March 4. The most significant agenda item was a discussion of drafting procedures for the AEC's Mid Term Evaluation (MTE) as mandated by the Comprehensive Peace Accord. The meeting also ad [...]
2008-03-10 14:24:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM354SUDAN CONSORTIUM PLANNING
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. (SBU) Deputy SRSG Amira Haq and World Bank Country Manager Asif Faiz asked CDA Fernandez March 9 for U.S. assistance with the agenda and venue of the Sudan Consortium, due to take place in Paris May 6-8. According to Haq these [...]
2008-03-10 15:29:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM385NEW CHADIAN REBEL OFFENSIVE BREWING IN WEST DARFUR
[...] (C) A new attempt to overthrow Chadian President Idriss Deby's government is brewing in West Darfur, UN officials, humanitarian workers, and Chadian rebel commanders told Poloffs in El Geneina between March 11 and 13. Though predictions on the start date for the next attempt to topple Deby's [...]
2008-03-16 10:58:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD FR
08KHARTOUM386DESPITE DAKAR ACCORD, SPLM AND SLM BRACE FOR
[...] (C) Recounting his efforts to press a diffident President Bashir to support the recent Dakar accord with Chad--including a mechanism to monitor violations--Foreign Minister Deng Alor remains concerned that Khartoum will continue to pursue regime change in N'djamena, he told Senior Assistant to [...]
2008-03-16 14:37:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN AU SU CD UG
08KHARTOUM39LOOKING AHEAD ON THE SUDAN AEC
[...] (C) Norway's Ambassador to Khartoum, in his capacity as Interim AEC (Assessment and Evaluation Commission) Chairman called AEC working group chairs (US, UK, Norway, Italy, Netherlands) together to survey the way ahead for the Commission over the next few months. UK Ambassador reported on the [...]
2008-01-11 11:17:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AU UN SU
08KHARTOUM397CHAD: RFC'S ERDIMI PLANS LAND GRAB WHILE OTHER
[...] (C) As other Chadian rebel factions conspire to topple President Idriss Deby, RFC leader Timan Erdimi plans to "occupy" as much territory as possible and then negotiate with a transitional government to achieve his political objectives, he told Poloff in Khartoum on March 15. Explaining that r [...]
2008-03-17 06:15:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN AU SU CD FR
08KHARTOUM409SUDANESE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR WARNED ON SUPPORTING
[...] (C) Summary: Warned about continued interference in Chad on March 17, Sudanese Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail said that Sudan was ready for immediate monitoring of its border with Chad, denied that Sudan supports Chadian rebels and said that the U.S. should press President Deby to [...]
2008-03-18 13:00:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS SU CD
08KHARTOUM418UFDD/F CALLS ON WEST TO SPONSOR DIALOGUE WITH DEBY
[...] (C) The Union des Forces de la Democratie et du Development/Fondamentale (UFDD/F) wants Western governments to sponsor a dialogue between the opposition and the regime of Chadian President Idriss Deby, the movement's commissar for political affairs, Mukhtar Yaya, told Poloff in Khartoum on Mar [...]
2008-03-19 15:05:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS AU SU CD
08KHARTOUM42FOREIGN MINISTER ALOR: NEW MARCHING ORDERS FROM
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 12 meeting with Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the newly sworn in Foreign Minister (FM) Deng Alor said President Bashir had personally tasked him with taking the lead in improving bilateral relations between Sudan and the United S [...]
2008-01-13 16:17:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREF SU AU UN PGOV
08KHARTOUM482SPLM SG ABDUL AZZIZ ON STRENGTHENING THE PARTY AND
[...] (C) Summary: SPLM Deputy SG Abdul Azziz al Helou outlined his plans to strengthen the party's organization to CDA Fernandez, including training cadres, augmenting offices in the North, and developing a clear, consistent communications strategy, including its own media outlets. The SPLM hopes [...]
2008-04-01 16:06:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPOL PREL EAID AU SU
08KHARTOUM484SPLM SG ABDUL AZZIZ ON STRENGTHENING THE PARTY AND
[...] (C) Summary: SPLM Deputy SG Abdul Azziz al Helou outlined his plans to strengthen the party's organization to CDA Fernandez, including training cadres, augmenting offices in the North, and developing a clear, consistent communications strategy, including its own media outlets. The SPLM hopes [...]
2008-04-02 05:38:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPOL PREL EAID AU SU
08KHARTOUM501CHADIAN REBELS: WEST CAN FACILITATE DIALOGUE OR
[...] (C) One faction 'c2MwCQ$Q outbreak of a renewed offensive to topple him. According to UFDD/F President Abdelwahid Aboud, the three movements in the AN have settled on a joint structure, with Mahamat Nouri as the political chief. He said the recent attack on Ade was the opening salvo of a new c [...]
2008-04-03 15:19:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CD SU
08KHARTOUM517UNMIS DDR PROGRAM TO REQUEST FUNDING AT SUDAN CONSORTIUM IN
[...] (SBU) At a meeting of the AEC Security working group April 2 UNMIS DDR Chief Adrian Verheul described plans for an April 9 high-level roundtable meeting in Khartoum of UN officials, donors and GOS officials to develop comprehensive DDR program. Verheul plans to follow this up with a request fo [...]
2008-04-06 07:57:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM53DSRSG ZERIHOUN ON ABYEI, DARFUR POLITICAL PROCESS
[...] (SBU) Meeting with DCM Powers and SPG Director Lauren Landis on January 13, the UN's Deputy Special Representative for the Secretary-General Taye Zerihoun urged all parties to maintain focus SIPDIS on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) as it enters the third year of its six year transit [...]
2008-01-15 12:29:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL AU UN SU
08KHARTOUM556SPLM ROLLS OUT BROAD DARFUR PLAN AND REQUESTS DONOR FUNDS
[...] (SBU) The SPLM has developed a multi-track plan to effect resolution of the Darfur crisis. Though lacking in operational detail, the plan includes having SPLM representatives visit rebel groups and civil society in all three Darfur states, working with the NCP to develop a GNU approach to the [...]
2008-04-10 11:35:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM640CHAD: UFDD, UFDD/F REITERATE IMPORTANCE OF PEACE
[...] (C) In an April 24 conversation with Poloff, representatives of Mahamet Nouri's Union des Forces du Developpement et de la Democratie (UFDD) and Abdelwahid Aboud Makaye's UFDD/Fondamentale welcomed the increased international engagement on the Chadian conflict evident during the April 10 Conta [...]
2008-04-25 10:20:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SU CD
08KHARTOUM666CHAD: ERDIMI BLAMES STALLED TALKS ON CHAD, LIBYA
[...] (C) RFC leader Timan Erdimi says that the talks in Tripoli between his movement and Chadian representatives have stalled because of Deby's lack of sincerity to participate in real political dialogue and Libya's pro-Deby bias. Though some RFC representatives remain in Libya to signify Erdimi's [...]
2008-05-01 14:49:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AU SU CD LY
08KHARTOUM684POSTURING FOR ELECTIONS, UMMA WORKS TOWARD PEACE
[...] (C) Predicting that the National Congress Party and/or the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) may use the ongoing crisis in Darfur as a pretext to postpone the 2009 elections, the Umma Party is seeking to forge a peace settlement for the troubled region and to defuse Chad-Sudan tensions, [...]
2008-05-05 08:15:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SU CD
08KHARTOUM713CHAD: AWAITING CONTACT FROM DEBY, NOURI sEEKS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 15:18:00Embassy KhartoumSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV SU CD LY SA
08KHARTOUM716JEM REBELS ATTACK OMDURMAN, ALMOST REACH KHARTOUM
[...] (SBU) JEM rebels attacked the sprawling Khartoum suburb of Omdurman May 10 and advanced within sight of one of the bridges leading to Khartoum. Although Sudanese Government forces prevented the rebels from crossing the Nile into the capital, JEM claims that it will launch another attack on the [...]
2008-05-11 15:50:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS KPKO AU UN SU CD
08KHARTOUM726CHAD: NATIONAL ALLIANCE POSITION UNCHANGED BY
[...] (C) The main Chadian rebel factions have not changed their strategy as a result of the Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) May 10 brazen assault on Omdurman, National Alliance (AN) Secretary General Abakar Tolli told Poloff in a May 12 meeting. The AN--composed of the Union des Forces du De [...]
2008-05-13 12:27:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CD SU
08KHARTOUM741SPLM PROPOSES FM ALOR VISIT PARIS TO DISCUSS JEM/CHAD, SPLA
[...] (SBU) GNU Foreign Minister Deng Alor told poloffs in Juba May 14 that President Bashir may send him to Paris possibly as soon as next week to discuss Chad and its support for JEM with the French. Alor asked poloffs to "pass this information to your people in Khartoum and Washington." FM Alor [...]
2008-05-15 10:42:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM764MINAWI SAYS KHALIL IBRAHIM STRONGER AFTER OMDURMAN
[...] (C) Summary: JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim is stronger as a result of the attack on Omdurman, despite the short-term loss of fighters and vehicles, according to SLM leader and Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi. Minawi believes an attack on Chad is imminent, despite comments from other [...]
2008-05-19 05:43:00Embassy KhartoumSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM783ARAB REBEL LEADER PROMISES MORE ATTACKS ON GOS
[...] (C) SUMMARY On May 19 and 20, Anwar Ahmed Khater, the leader of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) (and "Darfur's emerging Arab leader" according to one Darfur expert),told poloff that Chadian officials and JEM leaders attempted to recruit his Arab rebel movement prior to JEM's May 10 a [...]
2008-05-21 11:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM834DARFUR ELECTION COALITIONS EMERGE FROM SKEPTICISM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following the widely criticized census exercise, Darfuris remain wary of the prospects for elections mandated for next year. In a series of meetings, North Darfur political leaders told FieldOff that Darfur political parties are generally ill-prepared to participate, and most r [...]
2008-06-04 11:22:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM KDEM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM893ABDUL WAHID'S KHARTOUM REP DISCUSSES MILITARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY In a discrete June 12 meeting with poloff, the head of SLA-Abdul Wahid's Khartoum's office boasted of Abdul Wahid's military strength, extensive and multi-layered organization throughout Sudan, and overall popularity in Darfur. He also strongly criticized UNAMID, Special Envoys [...]
2008-06-15 14:36:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM933SUDAN WON'T STOP UNTIL DEBY STOPS, CLAIMS GOS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. For the GoS to refrain from interfering in Chad, Chadian President Idris Deby must stop his support for Darfur rebel groups, particularly the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by Khalil Ibrahim, GoS NCP Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail told CDA Fernandez. On a rece [...]
2008-06-24 06:51:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALKPKO PGOV PHUM PREL SU
08KHARTOUM941ABYEI, SUDAN ON KNIFE'S EDGE, WARNS FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: FM Deng Alor described ongoing tensions on the June 8 Abyei road map while noting some progress in implementing its milestones. Back from a just concluded visit to several European capitals, he summarized increasing European pressure, especially from France, on the need for Sudane [...]
2008-06-25 11:10:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM973JEM'S SENIOR LEADERS DISCUSS POLITICAL PROCESS (PART I of
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 27-28, three senior Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leaders in London separately met poloff and discussed Darfur's political process. Leaders appeared confident of JEM's position following their May 10 attack on Omdurman, though frustrated by the stalled political p [...]
2008-07-02 08:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM974JEM'S SENIOR LEADERS DISCUSS REBEL UNIFICATION AND EXTERNAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 27-28, three senior Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leaders in London separately met poloff and discussed JEM's ideas on rebel unification; its relations with the SPLM, SLM/Minni Minnawi, Chad, and Libya; and JEM's expectations for the content of any peace deal. Thes [...]
2008-07-02 09:08:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KHARTOUM983SLA/UNITY AND SLA/AW APPEAR INTERNALLY DIVIDED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 26, the SLA/Unity's erratic spokesman, Mahjoub Hussein, told poloff in London that his rebel movement is planning a massive attack ("the flood") on Khartoum. In a separate meeting with Hussein's colleague, SLA/Unity's Humanitarian coordinator Suliman Jamous said he was [...]
2008-07-04 12:23:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU
08KIGALI410RWANDA HOSTS SUCCESSFUL JOINT MONITORING GROUP
[...] (C) Summary. On June 4, Rwanda hosted delegations from the DRC, the European Union, United States, United Nations, South Africa, and African Union for the fourth Joint Monitoring Group - Envoys' Level meeting. Participants discussed continuing implementation of the Nairobi Accord and its int [...]
2008-06-11 15:51:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR RW
08KIGALI620RWANDA - MONTHLY POLITICAL ROUND-UP
[...] (U) In this edition: - Release of Mucyo Commission report on French Responsibility in 1994 Genocide - Former ICTR Prosecutor on Rwandan Justice System, Universal Jurisdiction, and Transfer of Cases - Legislative Campaign Kick-Off - Some Reporters Shut Out - Kagame Talks Tough in Inter [...]
2008-09-11 16:19:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM RW
08KIGALI75KOUCHNER VISIT TO KIGALI: GREAT ATMOSPHERICS, BUT
[...] (C) Summary. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visited Kigali for four hours on January 26, sandwiched between stops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burkina Faso. Kouchner visited the Gisozi Genocide Memorial, and had talks with President Kagame, including a joint appearan [...]
2008-01-31 10:36:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL RW
08KIGALI810PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS NATIONWIDE IN SUPPORT OF
[...] (U) Following nine days of demonstrations in front of the German Embassy in Kigali concerning the arrest of Chief of Presidential Protocol Rose Kabuye in Stuttgart (with occasional protest marches in front of the Deutsche Welle radio station complex and the European Union offices, also in Kig [...]
2008-11-19 15:28:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM RW
08KINGSTON1039 JAMAICA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009
[...] Response to reftel request for the investment climate statement. Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ 2. The Government of Jamaica (GOJ) seeks to attract foreign direct investment and markets itself to companies in Europe, North America and the Caribbean region. [...]
2008-12-10 13:02:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC
08KINSHASA1050UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR THE GREAT LAKES OBASANJO
[...] (C) Summary: UN Great Lakes Envoy Olusegun Obasanjo briefed Kinshasa-based diplomats November 15 on his meetings with Angolan President dos Santos and with senior DRC officials, including President Kabila. Dos Santos told Obasanjo that there were no Angolan troops in the DRC, except for a f [...]
2008-11-26 07:15:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF KPAO
08KINSHASA1059 FIRST OFFICIAL DONOR MEETING WITH NEW DRC PRIME MINISTER
[...] (U) Summary: A group of heads of development and cooperation agencies from key donor countries met with new Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito on November 22, 2008. The discussion lasted for approximately 90 minutes and touched upon the Prime Minister's new p [...]
2008-12-01 07:30:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PREL CH CG
08KINSHASA1154 EASTERN DRC NOTES - DECEMBER 24
[...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Note: Due to seasonal holidays, our next report will appear on December 29. End not [...]
2008-12-24 09:44:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KINSHASA172Request for Exemption from Local Exchange Rate Adjustments
[...] This is an action cable. Please see para. 9. 2. Summary: The DRC economy is very "dollarized." Shopkeepers expect to be paid in dollars, post most prices in Congolese francs, and factor francs/dollar exchange rate increases immediately into those prices. This practice effectively elimina [...]
2008-02-19 12:03:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDALOW AMGT AFIN ABUD CG
08KINSHASA22DRC DECEMBER ECONOMIC REVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary Agriculture - FAO Promotes Manioc Infrastructure - TV and Radio Broadcasters Recoup Licenses to Transmit - President of African Development Bank Announces Africa's First Satellite Investment - Swiss Government Allocates USD 136 Billion for Local DRC Elections Labor - E [...]
2008-01-10 14:54:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EMIN ELAB EAIR PGOV CG
08KINSHASA246SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF USAID ADMINISTRATOR AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is slowly grappling with fundamental governance, security and development challenges following historic 2006 national elections. The promise of peace and democratization and the importance of the DRC as the linchpin of central Africa a [...]
2008-03-12 07:50:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV EAID ECON PREF PHUM MARR ASEC
08KINSHASA413DRC APRIL ECONOMIC REVIEW
[...] (U) Summary Agriculture ----------- - New DRC Agricultural Code Presented to Traditional Chiefs - African Wildlife Foundation Assists Isolated Population - Orientale Province Poised to Renew Agricultural Activities Aviation -------- - CAA Suspends Flights, All Planes to South Afric [...]
2008-05-12 06:15:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EMIN ELAB EAIR PGOV CG
08KINSHASA426PRC Engagement in the DRC
[...] (SBU) Summary: The story of Chinese (PRC) involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),dating to the 1970's when the DRC was barely into its second decade as an independent nation, is long and complex. Since the early 2000's, China has ramped up its presence and exchanges with the D [...]
2008-05-13 15:54:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAGR ECPS MARR PREL PGOV SENV
08KINSHASA548 FRENCH SECRETARY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VISITS DRC
[...] (SBU) Summary: French Secretary for Human Rights Rama Yade re-extended an invitation to President Kabila to visit France, announced a 300,000 euro grant to assist street children in Kinshasa and made a side trip to Bukavu during her June 8-11 visit to the DRC visit. The French hope Kabila wi [...]
2008-06-24 11:51:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI CG FR
08KINSHASA640Piracy in the Congolese Music Industry: it hurts
[...] (U) Summary: The vibrant recording industry has long been an integral part of Congolese culture. Due to the rampant piracy of cassette tapes and CD's, however, that industry has ceased to exist. Congolese musicians and producers are generally apathetic to the problem, having found ways to o [...]
2008-08-06 06:55:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDECON BBSR EIND EINT EINV CG
08KINSHASA677 KABILA MEETS AUGUST 5 WITH DONOR COMMUNITY ON DEVELOPMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Joseph Kabila convoked bilateral and multilateral development partners August 5 to assess progress on his development priorities and to review social and economic development issues. This meeting was significant as it was President Kabila's first encounter with the i [...]
2008-08-18 07:42:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL PGOV CG
08KINSHASA716 PODCASTING HITS THE CONGO
[...] Summary: Embassy Kinshasa introduced a dozen radio journalists to the concept of podcasting, focusing on IIP's French website (http://www.America.gov/fr). Media representatives made a number of useful suggestions about how this multimedia tool can be used in the Congo and were clearly intere [...]
2008-08-29 11:38:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KPAO CG UNESCO
08KINSHASA891 Kabila visits Quebec City to promote Kinshasa's
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Joseph Kabila has broken with his preference for staying at home to instead attend this week's Francophonie Summit in Quebec City. Just days ago, the Democratic Republic of the Congo submitted its letter of candidacy for Kinshasa to host the 2010 summit; the only oth [...]
2008-10-16 14:27:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID SCUL CG
08KINSHASA918THE DRC AND CHINA: WE CAN HAVE OUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Recent public statements by the IMF, China (PRC)'s Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (GDRC) on the multi-billion dollar Sino-Congolese agreement concluded in early 2008 (ref A) share several common theme [...]
2008-10-22 15:25:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PREL CH CG
08KUALALUMPUR572ANWAR IMPLICATES DPM NAJIB IN MURDER CASE
[...] (C) A private investigator's legal deposition, revealed by Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on July 3, implicates Deputy Prime Minister Najib in the high-profile Altantuya murder case. The deposition, based primarily on statements reportedly made by Altantuya and murder defendant Razak Bagind [...]
2008-07-03 09:18:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MARR KDEM KJUS MY
08KUALALUMPUR704DOWNGRADE MALAYSIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION?
[...] (C) Malaysia's Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) faces potential downgrading by the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC) for non-compliance with the Paris Principles. If downgraded, SUHAKAM will be banned from atte [...]
2008-08-08 09:16:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV MY
08KUWAIT1102KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
[...] (U) Summary and Comment. On the day of the American presidential elections, many of the Arabic language Kuwaiti print dailies ran editorials that speculated as to who would win the election, as well as the possible consequences for Kuwait. While one liberal Kuwaiti daily, Al-Rai, predicted D [...]
2008-11-04 13:53:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT1116KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS -
[...] (U) On Thursday, November 6, all Kuwaiti Arabic language dailies ran front-page headlines about the U.S. election results. All headlines characterized the election of Democratic candidate Barack Obama to the presidency as being positive or historic, while others offered congratulations to the [...]
2008-11-06 13:15:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT1123GULF BANK: BETTING AGAINST THE DOLLAR... AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Kuwaiti financial sector continues to feel the impact of Gulf Bank's trading losses (reftel). Speculation abounds as to the extent of the losses, the identity of the "client" who defaulted on derivatives contracts, and the role of the Central Bank of Kuwait in stabilizing Gu [...]
2008-11-11 13:39:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV KU
08KUWAIT1174KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS
[...] (U) On Sunday, November 30 and Monday, December 1, a considerable number of Kuwaiti Arabic language dailies ran opinions and editorials about the terrorist attacks that occurred last week in Mumbai, India. At least eight Kuwaiti citizens were trapped during the attacks and the multi-day siege [...]
2008-12-01 14:14:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT1211KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS
[...] (U) On Sunday, November 30 and Monday, December 1, a considerable number of Kuwaiti Arabic language dailies ran opinions and editorials about the terrorist attacks that occurred last week in Mumbai, India. At least eight Kuwaiti citizens were trapped during the attacks and the multi-day siege [...]
2008-12-21 11:40:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT1247KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- MEDIA SPECULATES ON GOK DEAL WITH
[...] (U) Summary and Comment. As of late Sunday, December 28, Al-Rai and Al-Watan T.V. reported that the Council of Ministers had arrived at a negative decision in regards to the Government of Kuwait (GOK) deal with Dow Chemical. This media reaction cable covers the lead-up to the Council's decis [...]
2008-12-28 14:08:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINO EPET OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT1253KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- KUWAITI MEDIA COVERAGE OF VIOLENCE
[...] (U) Summary and Comment. As of Tuesday, December 30, all Kuwaiti Arabic and English language print dailies continued to publish headlines and pictures related to the ongoing situation in Gaza. In addition to the continued front page news updates, a number of Editors-in-Chief offered editoria [...]
2008-12-30 11:44:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINO EPET OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT126KUWAIT DECRIES GAZA SITUATION, SENDS RED CRESCENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to the January 23 breaching of the border at Rafah, Kuwaiti MPs, governmental bodies, and human rights organizations have united in criticism of the humanitarian situation in Gaza. This follows a January 22 Parliamentary declaration condemning Israeli actions in Gaza [...]
2008-01-31 14:25:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALKPAL PGOV PHUM KU
08KUWAIT312KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - GOK CABINET RESIGNATION
[...] (U) Following the late afternoon resignation of the Kuwaiti cabinet on March 17 (Reftel),the Kuwaiti press the next morning focused on what the event might mean for the country's short-term political future. In banner headlines, the ten Arabic-language and three English-language daily newspap [...]
2008-03-18 10:03:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PREL PGOV XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT337U.S.-KUWAIT GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE TALKS (MARCH
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Kuwait hosted the third round of the U.S.-Kuwait Gulf Security Dialogue on March 10. During these discussions, Kuwait condemned Iran's support for terrorism, reiterated its commitment to engaging Iran diplomatically, and expressed its support in implementing UNSC resolutions 1 [...]
2008-03-26 06:55:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM MARR MASS PTER KPAL KTFN KCIP ASEC
08KUWAIT360KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - THE ARAB SUMMIT IN DAMASCUS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-01 13:21:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT395DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PREPARATION FOR THE PARIS
[...] (C) In an April 8 meeting with MFA U/S Khaled Al-Jarallah, CDA delivered reftel points about the June 12 Paris Conference. Al-Jarallah said the GOK had not yet received a formal invitation. 2. (C) CDA also highlighted the USAID-GOA-sponsored April 20-23 Donor Coordination Event in Kabul ac [...]
2008-04-10 14:48:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALSA KU KDEM EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL
08KUWAIT435SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S APRIL 21-22, 2008
[...] (C/NF) Embassy Kuwait looks forward to your return for the April 21-22 Iraq Neighbors Conference. Ambassador Jones arrives April 19, and receiving you will be her first official act. In addition to your primary focus on the multilateral Iraq event, the timing is propitious for advancing bila [...]
2008-04-17 14:54:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON EAID OVIP KU IZ IR
08KUWAIT453FINAL COMMUNIQU OF THE EXPANDED MINISTERIAL
[...] On April 22, the participants of the Expanded Ministerial Conference of the Neighbouring Countries of Iraq issued a final communiqu listing agreements reached during the conference. Text of the communiqu is included below. Overview of conference reported septel. 2. Begin text. Final C [...]
2008-04-24 12:11:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER PHUM PBTS KU
08KUWAIT499CORRECTED COPY - KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - KUWAITI AND FORMER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 04:56:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT500KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - A THIRD KUWAITI NATIONAL, BADR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 04:56:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT501KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - U.S. SOLDIERS ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 10:30:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT502 SUGGESTED TALKING POINTS -- U.S. SOLDIERS ALLEGEDLY
[...] (U) Summary and comment: The Kuwaiti English language newspaper Arab Times and two other local Arabic-language papers reported an incident today that happened approximately 24 hours ago concerning a traffic altercation between U.S. military personnel and Kuwaiti nationals (Reftel). Post prop [...]
2008-05-07 10:54:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT525KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- COLUMNISTS DENOUNCE RECENT MOSUL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-14 04:58:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT542KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- REACTION TO THE DEATH OF THE
[...] Summary and comment: On the evening of Tuesday, May 13, 2008, the Amiri Diwan announced the death of the "Father Amir" Shaykh Saad Abdullah al-Sabah. Shaykh Saad enjoyed heroic stature in Kuwait due to his long service as Crown Prince, including high-profile leadership during the 1990-91 Iraq [...]
2008-05-15 06:00:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT566KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- Kuwait Parliamentary Elections
[...] Summary: As expected, the front page headlines of all Kuwaiti dailies covered the success of Islamist candidates in the Saturday, May 17 Kuwaiti Parliamentary elections. All newspapers also addressed the fact that no female candidates were elected to Parliament. Additionally, almost all of t [...]
2008-05-20 03:20:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU KWMN MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT666KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- TIP and GCC Foreign Ministers'
[...] (U) Summary and Comment. A limited amount of press coverage immediately followed the U.S Department of State's June 4 release of the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. However, there since has been a plethora of articles, editorials, and op-eds responding to the report's contents. A [...]
2008-06-12 03:26:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU KWMN MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT700KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION -- Update: U.S. Designation of
[...] (U) Summary and Comment. The June 13 U.S. designation of Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) as a charity that provides financial and material support to al-Qaeda and its affiliates continues receive heavy coverage in the Kuwaiti press. Although the vast majority of publish [...]
2008-06-19 03:20:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU KWMN MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT73KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH VISIT TO KUWAIT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-17 09:22:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT734EMBASSY KUWAIT RESPONSE TO FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Kuwait provides substantial foreign assistance, primarily, but not exclusively to Islamic countries, in line with its foreign policy priorities. Kuwait gives an estimated USD 1 billion annually to 100-plus countries, with significant assistance for Lebanon, the Palestinian Terri [...]
2008-06-26 14:25:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEAID ECIN ECON EFIN EL AL
08KUWAIT761SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT AND EXPERT DELEGATION
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: On June 10, a delegation led by Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and including representatives from the Department of State, the Department of Energy (DOE),the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),and the Nuclear Regu [...]
2008-07-02 13:23:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALENRG KNNP PREL PARM
08KUWAIT772KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - Update: TIP Report Coverage in
[...] (U) Summary. The TIP report's June 4 release triggered a plethora of articles, editorials, and op-eds responding to the report's contents. Initially, articles harshly challenged the report's content; some articles continued to cover the Government of Kuwait's (GOK) refutation of the report's [...]
2008-07-09 03:39:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU TIP MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT841KFAED DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL: BUREAUCRATIC
[...] (U) Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Affairs Gordon Gray met with Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) Deputy Director General Ghanim Al-Ghunaiman on July 22. Al-Ghunaiman discussed current and future assistance programs in Iraq and asked for assistance in identifying an appropri [...]
2008-07-24 14:33:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID ECON IZ KPAL KU PREL EINV LE
08KUWAIT99KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - VISIT OF KUWAIT FM TO TEHRAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kuwaiti media coverage of Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah's January 16, 2008, press conference in Tehran focused almost exclusively on issues discussed and, in all but two English-language newspapers, did not contain any reference to the FM's comment on Kuwaiti-Iran [...]
2008-01-25 13:28:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO XF IR KU MEDIA REACTION
08KUWAIT990AD-Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting: GoK views
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) On September 17, Ecouns talked to Ambassador Jassim Al-Mubaraki, the Director of the MFA's Arab World Department. Mubaraki confirmed that the GOK had received an invitation from Norway to attend the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) [...]
2008-09-17 15:10:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KPAL PGOV PREL IS KU
08KYIV2269NATO MAP: UKRAINE BEGINS LOWERING EXPECTATIONS FOR
[...] (C) The Presidential Secretariat has begun to de-emphasize the importance of receiving a MAP invitation at the December 2-3 NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting in Brussels. Deputy Secretariat Head Honcharuk on November 18 said failure to receive MAP in December would not be a "tragedy." MFA cont [...]
2008-11-19 16:31:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALNATO PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV303UKRAINE: PM TYMOSHENKO MAKES THE PITCH FOR MAP AT
[...] (C) Summary: PM Tymoshenko made a more convincing case for her personal commitment to Ukraine's request for a MAP at Bucharest during a February 5 meeting with visiting HFAC Europe Subcommittee Chairman Wexler (D-FL). She told Wexler that the letter requesting MAP signed by the President, PM [...]
2008-02-07 12:56:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UP
08KYIV404UKRAINE IPR: 2008 SPECIAL 301 -- POST INPUT
[...] (SBU) Summary and Recommendation: Embassy recommends Ukraine remain on the Special 301 Priority Watch List, which is statutorily accompanied by Section 306 monitoring (ref A),although the Government of Ukraine continues to move in the right direction on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) prot [...]
2008-02-21 13:11:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON UP
08KYIV408UKRAINE: REGIONS PROPOSES PACKAGE TO UNBLOCK RADA,
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Rada failed to open as scheduled on February 21 with Regions continuing to blockade the rostrum. However, opposition leader Yanukovych proposed an end to the blockade in exchange for positive Rada consideration of ten legislative initiatives. A parliamentary rou [...]
2008-02-21 13:39:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL UP
08KYIV522UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO CONFIRMS COALITION UNITY,
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador and President Yushchenko met late March 11 to discuss Ukraine's bid for a NATO MAP at the April 2-4 Bucharest Summit. The Ambassador told President Yushchenko that President Bush was talking to NATO Allies about MAP for Ukraine and that the U.S. believes that unity [...]
2008-03-13 06:46:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV706UKRAINE/MTCR/WASSENAAR: SYRIAN MILITARY ENGINE
[...] (S-REL UP) We provided ref A talking points April 7 to MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Counselor Oleh Belokolos during an previously planned meeting. Belokolos said he would distribute our information regarding Motor Sich's contract to overhaul Syrian military aircraft engi [...]
2008-04-07 13:14:00Embassy KyivSECRETPARM ETTC MARR MTCRE PREL SY CH UP
08KYIV962UKRAINE: YUZHNOYE AND ISRO PROPOSED ROCKET
[...] (S) We drew on ref A points during a May 21 meeting with MFA Arms Control Department Deputy Director Valeriy Kravchenko to urge Ukraine to provide detailed information to the MTCR Partners via the MTCR Point of Contact in Paris on the proposed Yuzhnoye-ISRO rocket coooperation. At the same ti [...]
2008-05-21 15:40:00Embassy KyivSECRETPARM ETTC MNUC TSPA PREL MTCRE IN UP
08LAGOS104CENTRAL BANK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON FOREIGN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador met with the Nigerian Central Bank (CBN) Governor Chukwuma Soludo on March 6 to express U.S. concerns about planned restrictions on foreign investment in Nigerian banks. Soludo remained firm in his intention to press forward with the new rules. While foreigners [...]
2008-03-14 10:48:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PREL PGOV NI
08LAGOS434NIGERIA: PIRATES ATTACK OIL SUPPLY VESSELS AND
[...] (C) Summary: On October 25 and 26 in five separate incidents pirates attacked three oil supply vessels and six fishing trawlers, taking seventy Nigerian crewmen and seven Frenchmen hostage; by October 27 all hostages had been released. Bourbon Offshore, owner of two of the oil supply vessels [...]
2008-11-04 08:54:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPHSA PREL PTER EFIS EPET KCRM KCOR NI
08LAPAZ1166BOLIVIA: USAID PORTFOLIO REVIEW UPDATE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable updates REFTEL A, which announced the launching of the sensitive Government of Bolivia (GOB) review of the USAID portfolio. The review continues, although in recent weeks the GOB has announced it will accelerate the process by cutting out previously requested program [...]
2008-05-20 19:58:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BL
08LIBREVILLE19GABON: AFRICOM COMMANDER'S SUCCESSFUL VISIT
[...] (C) AFRICOM General William Ward's December 4-6 visit to Libreville found officials from both the Government of Gabon and the Economic Community of Central African States pressing for information on when and where AFRICOM will establish a headquarters or other facilities on the continent. Ga [...]
2008-01-11 15:33:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MASS KPAO GB
08LIBREVILLE564GABON: FRENCH GENERAL DESCRIBES STRENGTHS,
[...] (C) The senior French military officer in Central Africa provided visiting AF/C Deputy Director Siria Lopez with a tour d'horizon of French military perspectives on activities of the Economic Community of Central Africa States (ECCAS/CEEAC),including ECCAS's 700-person peacekeeping operation [...]
2008-12-01 15:41:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM AO BY CM CT CD CG CF EK GB
08LIBREVILLE567GABON/CAR: FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT ON CAR DDR PROCESS
[...] The following is a rough English translation of a framework document outlining the launch of the DDR process in the Central African Republic. The original French text has already been provided to AF/C. (Begin Text) FRAMEWORK PAPER ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE DDR PROCESS IN THE CENTRAL AFRICA [...]
2008-12-03 15:38:00Embassy LibrevilleUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM CT GB
08LIBREVILLE571GABON/CAR: PRESIDENT BOZIZE IN LIBREVILLE FOR TALKS
[...] (SBU) Central African Republic President Francois Bozize flew to Libreville December 2 for talks with his Gabonese counterpart El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba on the eve of a long-awaited "inclusive national dialogue" among CAR political and military factions. The dialogue is scheduled to begin De [...]
2008-12-06 09:54:00Embassy LibrevilleUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KPKO CT GB
08LIBREVILLE572GABON/CAR: GABON PUSHES HARD FOR CAR DIALOGUE
[...] (C) All major obstacles to the scheduled December 8 launch of an "inclusive political dialogue" in the Central African Republic appear to have been resolved, according to Gabonese mediators. Gabonese President Bongo will travel to Bangui for the December 8 opening of the dialogue, and Gabon [...]
2008-12-06 10:03:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO CT TO GB
08LIBREVILLE579GABON: STUDENTS PROTEST, TEACHERS' STRIKE RESUMES
[...] (U) Hundreds of secondary school students organized impromptu protests throughout the city of Libreville December 15 upon learning that their teachers had walked out on strike. The protests disrupted traffic on major Libreville thoroughfares. There were reports of some students throwing sto [...]
2008-12-15 15:18:00Embassy LibrevilleUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB CASC GB
08LILONGWE171INVITATION REQUEST FOR PEPFAR HEADQUARTERS CORE TEAM MEMBER JOHN CROWLEY, USAID
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-18 09:55:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDKHIV OTRA SOCI EAID MI
08LILONGWE497COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PEPFAR STRATEGIC INFORMATION REGIONAL
[...] THE U.S. EMBASSY LILONGWE WELCOMES AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO ALL REGISTERED USG PARTICIPANTS TO THE 2008 SI REGIONAL MEETING FROM SEPTEMBER 15 - 17, 2008. 2. PARTICIPANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REGISTERING AND ARRANGING THEIR OWN LODGING THROUGH THE MEETING ORGANIZER (PSMITH@AIMGLOBALHEA [...]
2008-08-21 14:02:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT EAID KHIV SOCI MI
08LIMA151PERU 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] (U) The Peruvian government seeks to attract investment -- both foreign and domestic -- in nearly all sectors of the economy. The U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA),signed by President Bush and President Garcia on December 14, enables Peru to attract additional investment by clarifyin [...]
2008-01-28 20:29:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD KTDB ELAB PGOV OPIC USTR PE
08LIMA1732NEA A/S WELCH MEETINGS WITH SPANISH OFFICIALS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. NEA A/S Welch, accompanied by DCM, met with FM Moratinos, Director General for the Mediterranean, Magreb and Near Orient Fidel Sendagorta, and Policy Planning Director Andres Ortega on October 23 to discuss a wide range of issues including the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),the Magr [...]
2008-10-31 21:55:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KHDP ETRD ENRG EC PE
08LISBON1238NEW POLICIES NEEDED FOR KOSOVO AND LEBANON; OTHER
[...] (C) Summary: The Portuguese MFA's Deputy EU Correspondent reported that the EU ministers needed to quickly develop an alternative strategy for the mission transition in Kosovo to avoid a gap between the UN and EU forces. She added that Portugal was in "no rush" to recognize Kosovo at this poin [...]
2008-05-23 17:55:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALIR IZ IS SY PHUM PREL PGOV PO
08LISBON156PORTUGAL'S 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] The following is Portugal's submission for the 2008 Investment Climate Statement: A. Openness to Foreign Investment --------------------------------- Portugal offers a favorable investment climate for foreign capital, both in the near and long term. Its economy has become increasingly dive [...]
2008-01-18 08:48:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC PO
08LISBON157PORTUGAL'S 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] The following is Portugal's submission for the 2008 Investment Climate Statement: A. Openness to Foreign Investment --------------------------------- Portugal offers a favorable investment climate for foreign capital, both in the near and long term. Its economy has become increasingly dive [...]
2008-01-18 08:58:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC PO
08LISBON207PORTUGAL USES EU PRESIDENCY TO PUSH BIOTECH
[...] (C) Led by Minister of Agriculture Jaime Silva, Portugal visibly strengthened its public support for biotech issues during its July-December 2007 EU Presidency. Minister Silva's public leadership on biotech went beyond favorable voting to include outspoken support of the European Food Safety [...]
2008-01-24 16:14:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALEAGR ETRD TBIO PO EUN
08LISBON2788PORTUGAL: NUCLEAR ENERGY OVERVIEW
[...] The following presents the information requested reftel regarding civilian nuclear energy in Portugal, provided by Teresa Tavares, Deputy for International Relations at the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Bento Morais Sarmento, Deputy Director of the General Directorate of Energy and [...]
2008-12-18 11:57:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO PGOV PO
08LISBON327DEMARCHE REQUEST: PORTUGUESE SUPPORT FOR LEBANON
[...] (C) Pol/econ counselor delivered reftel talking points and note verbale to MFA Middle East Director Isabel Pedrosa on February 7. Pedrosa said Portugal is "very much in tune" with U.S. priorities in Lebanon. She agreed on the importance of getting the Tribunal up and running and has recomm [...]
2008-02-08 16:58:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE SY PO
08LISBON427PORTUGUESE POSITIONS IN ADVANCE OF FEBRUARY 18-19
[...] (U) Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha stressed that the February GAERC would be focused heavily on how to coordinate a unified response to a Kosovar coordinated declaration of independence (CDI). In addition, she responded to reftel points on the Middle East, Chad, Kenya, and Myanmar [...]
2008-02-19 12:19:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV EUN PO
08LISBON492POSSIBLE PORTUGUESE-IRANIAN GAS AGREEMENT ON THE
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Luis Amado confirmed during a January 23 press conference that Portugal's largest energy company, Galp Energia, and Iran's National Oil Company, NIOC, are in negotiations over a natural gas exploration and production project in Iran. The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and [...]
2008-02-26 17:58:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ECON TRGY PO IR RS AG
08LISBON512PORTUGAL OPEN TO DISCUSSING IEA MEMBERSHIP FOR
[...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Officer delivered reftel talking points to the MFA's Director of International Economic Organizations Jose Rui Caroco and Senior Advisor on International Organizations and Economic Affairs Duarte Nuno G.J. Pinto da Rocha. Caroco stated that even though the IEA requires that its [...]
2008-02-27 17:06:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDENRG IEA PO
08LISBON624PORTUGAL SUPPORTS IPCC LANGUAGE TO REDUCE GHG
[...] (C) EU member states, including Portugal, strongly support Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) language suggesting Annex 1 countries collectively reduce their emissions by 25-40% by 2020, according to a high-ranking Environment Ministry official who characterized the proposal as [...]
2008-03-12 17:14:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV KGHG EUN PO
08LJUBLJANA144U.S.-EU JHA Ministerial Meeting Holds Productive Sessions
[...] (U) Slovenian Interior Minister Dragutin Mate and Justice Minister Lovro Sturm hosted Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and European Commission Vice-President and Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini on March 12-13 for the [...]
2008-03-27 15:11:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER CVIS SMIG SNAR PREL KCRM KFRD EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA146SLOVENIAN EU PRESIDENCY AT THE HALFWAY POINT
[...] (C) Slovenia has made the most of its limited resources during the first three months of its EU presidency by focusing on what it knows best and turning to outside sources for assistance in other areas. Slovenia appears more amenable than many previous small-country presidencies to seek guid [...]
2008-03-28 15:53:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL CVIS PGOV EUN ASEC OVIP SI
08LJUBLJANA223SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF MAY 26-27 JUMBO GAERC
[...] (C) On May 21, A/DCM delivered the May 26-27 GAERC points to European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih said that the "jumbo" GAERC, which would include Development and Defense Ministers, would issue conclusions on Lebanon, the Middle East Peace Process, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, the Western B [...]
2008-05-21 18:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV ZL PK AF ZI IR GG IS SY LE
08LJUBLJANA304CONVENTION ON SUPPLEMENTARY COMPENSATION FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-08 09:32:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA SI
08LJUBLJANA32SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF JANUARY 28 GAERC
[...] (C) In their January 24 meeting, Deputy European Correspondent Aljaz Arih explained to ADCM that now that Slovenia had the Presidency, it would not express strong positions on the issues. Instead, Slovenia's main task was to organize the GAERCs and put all the issues together. He said, howev [...]
2008-01-24 16:03:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN IR IS SY SI PGOV PK KE
08LJUBLJANA563THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY HAS A GLOWING FUTURE
[...] (SBU) The Slovene nuclear energy sector holds considerable promise for the U.S. company Westinghouse. Slovenia currently shares the electricity from its only nuclear plant, which was established during Yugoslav days, with Croatia. Westinghouse built the plant, which is 50% owned by the Govern [...]
2008-12-24 13:58:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP BTIO ENRG ETRD TRGY SI
08LJUBLJANA66SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF FEBRUARY 18 GAERC
[...] (C) In their February 13 meeting, European Union Division Director/Deputy Political Director Matej Marn told A/DCM that the February 18 GAERC would focus on Kosovo, which would be the first item on the external relations agenda. He hoped that the debate on other topics would be short. He expe [...]
2008-02-13 16:33:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EUN IR IS PGOV AADP
08LOME187 TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE ARMY OFFICER AND
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Army officer and one civilian selected to attend the Africa Center for Strategic Studies Seminar 29 June 2008 to 11 July 2008 in Washington D.C. 2. Information about the two participants is as follows: Name: BITENIWE, Koum [...]
2008-04-24 15:35:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME248 HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE POLICE AND GENDARMES TO
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for 30 Togolese police and gendarmes selected to attend trafficking in persons training sponsored by the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) in the Department of Justice. The course will take place June 23, 2 [...]
2008-05-23 12:55:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME271INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MIGRATION
[...] (SBU) Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Leopold Gnininvi at a small dinner on June 6 regarding Ambassador Swing,s candidacy as IOM Director General. Gnininvi had just returned from the TICAD Conference in Tokyo. 2. (SBU) At Gnininvi,s request, Ambassador followed up with a phone call o [...]
2008-06-09 12:20:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORD PREF PREL SMIG TO
08LOME272GOVERNMENT OF TOGO RE-ENGAGES ON CORRUPTION
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Togolese Government highlighted the revival of the moribund National Commission for Combating Corruption and Economic Sabotage at the launch of a national workshop in Lome on implementing the UN Anti-Corruption Convention. In his keynote address, the Prime Minister announce [...]
2008-06-10 12:35:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN EAID EIND TO
08LOME274TOGO: GLOBAL MARITIME PARTNERSHIPS DEMARCHE
[...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Kodjo Menan, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on May 23. Menan listened carefully and stated that he is not familiar with any initiatives, but he would speak with the GoT officials who deal with these issues. DUNN [...]
2008-06-11 10:21:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDECON MARR MCAP PREL TO
08LOME385LETTER FROM PRESIDENT FAURE TO THE SECRETARY:
[...] The Embassy has received for transmission a letter dated June 25 from Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe to Secretary of State Rice. The letter is in French. Embassy translation follows: QUOTE Dear Madam Secretary of State: As you know, Togo is emerging from a recent political crisis [...]
2008-07-28 17:40:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OPDC PREL EFIN TO
08LOME686TOGO: CAR PARTY HOLDS CONGRESS, DISCUSSES FUTURE
[...] The third largest political party in Togo, the Action Committee for Renewal, held its party congress October 17-18. There were several unexpected surprises, including the presence of the Union of the Forces of Change (UFC) opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio and the election of a new president [...]
2008-12-12 14:14:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM TO
08LOME688 TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE NAVY OFFICER APS
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Navy officer selected to attend the Africa Partnership Station (APS) training in Naples, Italy and Ship Riders Training starting in Norfolk, VA from January 5, through June 3, 2009. 2. Information about the participant is as f [...]
2008-12-16 08:03:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LONDON1017HMG LOOKING FORWARD TO BUILDING ON GAINS OF NATO
[...] (C/NF) According to FCO Deputy Director for Security Policy Chris Holtby, HMG shares U.S. views that the results of the NATO Bucharest Summit were better than expected going in, and looked forward to working closely with us to move forward soon on the outcomes which fell short of expectation [...]
2008-04-09 15:46:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV NATO EU UK
08LONDON126MDG CALL TO ACTION: MORE UK THINKING
[...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings at DFID and FCO, UK interlocutors raised PM Brown's Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Call to Action. We were told the Call to Action is intended mesh with existing development initiatives, but bring in a private sector component that the others lack. More d [...]
2008-01-14 18:06:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID UN UK
08LONDON1303USAID, DFID AGREE ON COLLABORATION PROJECTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: UK Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander, sought USAID Administrator Henrietta ForeQs support for DFIDQs planned September 25 meeting on the Millennium Development Goals in New York. Douglas agreed to co-author an op-ed piece with Fore on why develop [...]
2008-05-09 14:42:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL KHDP ECON UK
08LONDON1456UK EXPECTATIONS FOR THE MAY 26-27 FOREIGN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-23 17:51:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV EU UK
08LONDON1485UK AND LIBERIA/FRANCE: UK SUPPORTIVE OF
[...] (C) The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) should be drawn down based "on conditions on the ground" and the current UN plan for a gradual down-sizing has the UK's full support, Peacekeeping Team Leader Nicola Murray said on May 28. The UK is "quietly positive" on UNMIL. While there ma [...]
2008-05-29 11:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPKO UNSC XY LI FR UK
08LONDON1606DESPITE GRIM MILESTONE, HMG VOWS TO STAY THE
[...] (C) Summary. UK media gave extensive coverage to the killing of three paratroopers by a suicide bomber as they were conducting a routine foot patrol in Helmand province on June 8. The incident pushed the total number of soldiers killed over the seven years of British military presence in Af [...]
2008-06-11 17:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR AF UK
08LONDON1645IRAN: FCO READOUT ON SOLANA IN TEHRAN AND PM
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Although Iran did not provide an immediate response to the P5 1 refreshed offer, Iran NSC Secretary Jalili unexpectedly agreed to "study the offer carefully," and also agreed it is now up to Iran, rather than the P5 1, to respond (ref a). A reference by Prime Minister Gordon [...]
2008-06-17 16:41:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL ECON EFIN KTFN MNUC PINS IR UK
08LONDON1647IAEA: UK RESPONSE TO REQUEST RELATED TO THE
[...] (U) PolMilOff delivered reftel and on June 13, 2008, received the response below from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Counter Proliferation Department. 2. (U) Begin Text of HMG Response: June 13, 2008 (Complimentary opening),(Regarding) the non-paper on CSC that you provided. O [...]
2008-06-18 12:00:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA PARM UK
08LONDON1648SOMALIA: POLITICAL SOLUTIONS REQUIRED FOR SHIPPING
[...] (C) Summary. Discussing French efforts to establish secure maritime supply chains for humanitarian aid for Somalia at a June 12 think-tank event in London, French MFA and Defense Ministry representatives were met with strong demands from shipping industry leaders for the international communi [...]
2008-06-18 13:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS EWWT PHSA UNSC KPKO SO XW UK
08LONDON1862SUDAN/ICC: UK STRATEGY WITH POTENTIAL BASHIR ICC
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Following Foreign Secretary Miliband's July 9 visit to Sudan, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's July 14 request for indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor's July 14 assurances to the UK that the GoS will "engage legally" wit [...]
2008-07-15 16:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC KPKO PHUM SU UK
08LONDON1876UK WELCOMES U.S. MESSAGE ON VIGILANCE OF IRISL CARGOES; BACKS TOUGHER EU ACTION REF: A. STATE 69339
[...] (S) The UK Government welcomed the U.S. message urging increased vigilance of ships and cargoes belonging to Iran Air Cargo and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and is advising relevant companies in the UK-based shipping industry of the need for due diligence when engaged with ei [...]
2008-07-16 16:37:00Embassy LondonSECRETPARM PINR PREL KNNP EUN UK
08LONDON1888BAE JUDICIAL REVIEW: HOUSE OF LORDS HEARS HMG
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 7-8 the Law Lords of the House of Lords heard HMG's appeal of the High Court ruling that Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Director Wardle acted unlawfully when he abandoned the anti-corruption investigation into BAE Systems' dealings in Saudi Arabia. HMG argued that Wardle ha [...]
2008-07-18 16:26:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKCOR EFIN OECD UK
08LONDON2055UK PLEASED WITH FIRST MONTH OF FRENCH PRESIDENCY;
[...] (C) Summary. France has "listened to" London during the first month of the French Presidency of the EU, especially on issues of current importance to the UK such as Zimbabwe and Iran, and the FCO tells us HMG is optimistic about prospects for the remainder of the Presidency. Despite initial concer [...]
2008-08-06 15:27:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PGOV EUN ETRD IR UP FR UK
08LONDON2060IRAN: UK SAYS LEGAL BASIS FOR EU LISTING OF MEK IS
[...] (C) Summary: The EU's continued anti-terror listing of the Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK) depends on the existence of an active French investigation of the group, according to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The FCO is uncertain whether the investigation, and the listing, will contin [...]
2008-08-07 14:19:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER EU IR FR UK
08LONDON2195SUDAN: P-3 DISCUSSIONS ON SUDAN - ICC ISSUES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-27 12:08:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM KAWC SU UK
08LONDON2282A MIXED UK RESPONSE TO UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE REF: A. STATE 95334 B. STATE 61034 C. PARIS 1446
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-09 15:53:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA UK
08LONDON2443FRANCE'S EDF BUYS BRITISH ENERGY, TAKING THE FIRST
[...] (U) Summary: French utility Electricite de France (EDF) will purchase the UK,s nuclear energy firm British Energy (BE) for a reported USD23 billion (USD 14.40 per share),making HMG's 36% stake worth an estimated USD 8.3 billion. The long-discussed entry of EDF, with its financial and technica [...]
2008-09-25 09:43:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG UK
08LONDON2542PM BROWN DOES THE UNEXPECTED IN ADDRESSING
[...] (SBU) Summary: The past 72-hours have seen dramatic political maneuvering in London to confront the deepening economic crisis. The first surprise was PM Brown's appointment of his long-time nemesis, the highly controversial figure, Peter Mandelson as business secretary, followed by the creati [...]
2008-10-06 14:22:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV PGOV UK
08LONDON2600IRAN: UK CURRENT POSTURE -- FCO FORMAL AND INFORMAL VIEWS
[...] (S) Please see Department information request at paragraph4. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Foreign and Commonwealth Office working contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) October 14 that: -- Foreign Secretary Miliband pressed his Chinese counterpart to have China re-engage in the P5 1, with little resul [...]
2008-10-14 19:04:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNCJAN PINS PREL PTER GE FR IT IR UK
08LONDON2822DRC: UK FOCUSING ON POLITICAL SOLUTION, MAKING
[...] (C) Parliament is pressing HMG for deployment of additional troops to MONUC, but the Foreign Office is concentrating on a political solution to the crisis and increased MONUC flexibility, FCO Great Lakes Team Leader David Hall and DRC Desk Officer Oliver Craven told us November 7. HMG will not sup [...]
2008-11-07 16:53:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PINR PREF PINS KPKO RW CG UK
08LONDON2899COTE D'IVOIRE: UK ON ELECTIONS, DDR, AND
[...] (C) Summary. The UK "does not buy into" the French view that Cote d'Ivoire's elections were delayed for technical reasons, and HMG thinks elections could have taken place on time, albeit with some technical problems, had there been the political will, FCO West Africa Team Leader Jonathan Drew told [...]
2008-11-19 15:48:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV IV FR UK
08LONDON2970 Spending Sprees And Tax Hikes: The Highs And Lows Of The
[...] (SBU) Summary: The November 24 2008 UK Pre-budget report (PBR) announces a GBP 20 billion stimulus package and deficit financing to respond to the recession brought on the global financial crisis. Government debt will double to GBP 1 trillion over the next few years before declining, and the [...]
2008-11-28 16:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
08LONDON3107SOMALIA/PIRACY: UK ON UNSC PIRACY RESOLUTION, CONTACT GROUP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-12 15:20:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW UK
08LONDON3199POSITIVE OUTLOOK FOR UK NUCLEAR ENERGY EXPANSION
[...] (SBU) Summary. HMG announced a long-term nuclear energy strategy in January 2008, setting it on a path for tremendous growth over the next ten years. This strategy addresses the UK's energy security concerns and EU commitments for clean/renewable energy. The UK hopes to increase the propor [...]
2008-12-22 17:54:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO UK
08LONDON727UK SUPPORTIVE OF WHA PDAS KELLY'S VIEWS ON LATIN
[...] (C) Summary. FCO Director of the Americas Chris Wood was supportive of U.S. policy on Latin America, praising progress in Colombia in particular during a visit by WHA PDAS Craig Kelly March 7. Wood agreed Venezuela and Bolivia were worrisome and that Cuba had not changed since Fidel's illne [...]
2008-03-11 17:37:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EU UK CO EC BR CU VE BL
08LONDON745UK SUPPORTS U.S. GOALS OF EXPANDED IEA MEMBERSHIP;
[...] (SBU) The UK's Minister of Energy Willie Ricketts will attend the March 13-14 IEA Governing Board meeting in Paris and support the U.S. goal to begin a process of evaluating how to work best with China and India on IEA issues, according to Tom Reilly, Director of the Climate and Energy Office, [...]
2008-03-12 17:00:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG IEA UK
08LONDON781DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT AND PERMANENT UNDER
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY Deputy Secretary of Treasury Robert Kimmitt and Ambassador Tuttle met Peter Ricketts, UK Permanent Under Secretary (PUS) at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on March 10. Both sides agreed on the need to plan for the one-year review conference for the International Compact wi [...]
2008-03-17 10:20:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL ECON EFIN
08LONDON954NATO MACEDONIA INVITATION: UK EFFORTS FAIL TO MOVE
[...] (C/NF) FCO Political Director Mark Lyall Grant told DCM that high-level UK intervention with Greece, including an appeal from FM Miliband to Greek FM Bakoyannis at the March 29 EU Gymnich, had failed to shift Athens off its hard-line position. Lyall Grant has been in close contact with Actin [...]
2008-04-02 15:29:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MK GR UK
08LUANDA537SCENESETTER FOR U/S REUBEN JEFFERY'S VISIT TO ANGOLA
[...] (U) My staff and I warmly welcome your July 21-22 visit to Angola. Your visit, the highest level USG visit to Angola since Secretary Powell's four-hour stop in September 2002, manifests what the Angolan government most wants from America: respect. I hope your visit presages more high level [...]
2008-07-14 11:59:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP JEFFERY REUBEN ECON PGOV EAID AO
08LUANDA574U/S JEFFERY VISIT SETS THE STAGE FOR DEEPER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Angola rolled out the red carpet to receive Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agriculture Affairs Reuben Jeffery III during his July 21-22 visit to Luanda. In meetings with key players in Angola's economic equation (government, international oil companies, ba [...]
2008-07-28 18:27:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECIN ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD EAID
08LUSAKA850GRZ PROVIDES SOME ANSWERS ON LEGAL ASPECTS OF
[...] Summary. The Zambian government (GRZ) will respect the constitutionally-mandated 90-day timeline for a presidential election and will announce the date of the polls after consultations between the Treasury and the Electoral Commission of Zambia, Justice Minister George Kunda announced on Aug [...]
2008-08-22 11:01:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA851PLANS FOR PRESIDENT MWANAWASA'S BURIAL ANNOUNCED
[...] The body of late President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa arrived aboard a French presidential plane on Saturday, August 23, and laid in state at the Mulungushi Conference Center until the morning of Monday, August 25. The body is now being flown on a tour of provincial capitals to allow the populat [...]
2008-08-25 12:28:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ZA
08MADRID105SPAIN: ELECTION UPDATE FEBRUARY 1
[...] (U) Summary: This cable continues our effort, started with ref a, to provide the flavor of the Spanish general election campaign. Politicians and pundits have said repeatedly the three key issues on March 9 will be the economy, terrorism, and regional autonomy. Events in the last two weeks [...]
2008-02-04 07:36:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SP
08MADRID1088SPAIN'S BASQUE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT EXPANDING ITS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Autonomous Community (regional) government of the Basque Country is opening two new offices in the United States, increasing its official presence to three offices. Ana Agirre, the Basque region's Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, will lead a delegation that will offi [...]
2008-10-14 12:10:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON PGOV PREL SP
08MADRID1132NEA A/S WELCH MEETINGS WITH SPANISH OFFICIALS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. NEA A/S Welch, accompanied by DCM, met with FM Moratinos, Director General for the Mediterranean, Magreb and Near Orient Fidel Sendagorta, and Policy Planning Director Andres Ortega on October 23 to discuss a wide range of issues including the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),the Magr [...]
2008-10-31 09:42:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL IR IZ SY SP MR
08MADRID1230SPAIN: CIVIL GUARD OFFERS INSIDER ACCOUNT OF ITS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a counter-terrorism (CT) conference co-sponsored by Embassy Madrid, General Pablo Martin Alonso, the Head of Intelligence for the Civil Guard -- known in Spanish as Guardia Civil (GC) -- discussed the role of the GC in detaining radical Islamic jihadists within Spain's borde [...]
2008-11-24 17:30:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPINR PINS PREL PTER SP
08MADRID1231SPAIN: ASSESSING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RECENT ETA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French police and Spanish Guardia Civil (GC) paramilitary forces conducted a joint raid in Cauterets, France early on the morning of November 17 in which they arrested ETA members Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina (aka "Txeroki" in Basque or "Cherokee" in English) and Leire Lopez Zu [...]
2008-11-24 17:34:00Embassy MadridSECRETPINR PINS PREL PTER SP FR
08MADRID23SPAIN SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR NULAND'S JANUARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: I warmly welcome your visit to Madrid in the company of your Spanish counterpart. I am pleased at the initiative taken by Ambassador Benavides, and I know that you will be well received by his colleagues and our contacts. When you arrive, Spain will be emerging from the Holidays [...]
2008-01-11 16:08:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR SP
08MADRID278SPANISH SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN PEACE
[...] (U) March 4, Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay reviewed Spain's support for the Israel-Palestinian peace process, particularly in advance of the March 10-11 EU Foreign Minister's Meeting (GAERC). He said that Spain believed it was critically important to [...]
2008-03-07 15:58:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKMPI KPAL PREL IS SP
08MADRID282SPANISH SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN PEACE
[...] (U) March 4, Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay reviewed Spain's support for the Israel-Palestinian peace process, particularly in advance of the March 10-11 EU Foreign Minister's Meeting (GAERC). He said that Spain believed it was critically important to [...]
2008-03-07 17:49:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKMPI KPAL PREL IS SP
08MADRID34SPAIN: POTENTIAL ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF EXPANDED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During Libyan leader Qadhafi's first official visit to Spain, December 15-18, MOUs were concluded on defense, economic cooperation and investment. Negotiations are still underway on a double taxation treaty. Qadhafi's visit began with a private two-day visit to Andalucia, foll [...]
2008-01-14 15:58:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD LY SP
08MADRID347DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN
[...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Director for Multilateral Economic Relations Juan Luis Munoz de Laborde. Econoff explained that while the US strongly supports enhanced OECD engagement with China, the US does not/not support China's proposal for an MOU to essentially restri [...]
2008-03-19 15:00:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ECON CMGT TW OECD SP
08MADRID350SPAIN: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY WINTER,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: I warmly welcome your visit to Madrid, and I look forward to traveling with you to visit Spain's largest shipbuilder, Navantia, in the Galician town of El Ferrol. When you arrive, Spain will be emerging from Easter holidays and the aftermath of the March 9 general election, and al [...]
2008-03-20 10:18:00Embassy MadridSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR SP
08MADRID351SPAIN: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY WINTER,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: I warmly welcome your visit to Madrid, and I look forward to traveling with you to visit Spain's largest shipbuilder, Navantia, in the Galician town of El Ferrol. When you arrive, Spain will be emerging from Easter holidays and the aftermath of the March 9 general election, and al [...]
2008-03-20 10:18:00Embassy MadridSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR SP
08MADRID407MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL UPDATE APRIL 5-11
[...] ECON/PGOV: Zapatero Announces Economic Measures During Investiture Debate 3. ECON: IMF, BBVA Revise Growth Projections Down, Economy Top Concern. 4. ECON/EFIN: Housing Downturn Continues to Hit Construction, Real Estate 5. ECON: Per Capita GDP Still Below Italy's After All 6. ECON/ELTN: [...]
2008-04-11 14:04:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ELTN PGOV SENV SP
08MADRID452SPAIN SUPPORTS EVENTUAL OSCE ROLE INSIDE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-22 08:34:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBMGT OSCE PGOV PREL PTER SP AF
08MADRID504SPAIN/RWANDA - PROSECUTOR DOWNPLAYS INDICTMENTS
[...] (C) Post's Consular Legal Advisor (LES) met informally with Spanish National Prosecutor Blanca Rodriguez on May 5 to discuss the ongoing Spanish prosecution of 40 Rwandan military officials (reftels). According to Rodriguez (please protect),the judiciary undertook the investigation and subs [...]
2008-05-09 08:52:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MASS KLIG KAWC OFDP RW SP
08MADRID52FIRST FORUM OF THE UN ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Aguirre represented Secretary Rice at the opening ceremonies of the First Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) in Madrid January 15-16. UNSYG Ban Ki-Moon, President Zapatero, President Erdogan of Turkey, and AoC High Representative Jorge Sampaio inaugurated th [...]
2008-01-18 17:09:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ODIP UN SOCI SCUL KISL KIRF KPAL
08MADRID520SPECIAL 301 IPR FOLLOWUP MEETING WITH SECSTATE ROS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The vice-minister responsible for intellectual property rights (IPR),Francisco Ros, told Charge on May 6 that the ending of the national election season meant that this was the time for the new GOS to make progress on IPR issues. He said the GOS intended to pass a new IPR law [...]
2008-05-09 17:34:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR SP
08MADRID571S/WCI AMB. WILLIAMSON PRESSES SPAIN ON RWANDA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In consultations with Spanish interlocutors in Madrid May 19-20, Ambassador Williamson (S/WCI) urged the Spanish government to reach out to the Rwandan government at the political level to try to ease tensions over the Spanish judiciary's indictment of 40 Rwandan officials in conn [...]
2008-05-23 11:57:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM MASS KLIG KAWC OFDP RW SP
08MADRID579SPANISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF MAY GAERC
[...] (C) Spanish MFA Deputy DG for ESDP Carlos Fernandez-Arias told Poloff May 22 that the May "Jumbo-GAERC" would address the Balkans, Iraq, Lebanon, MEPP, Afghanistan, Somalia, Georgia and Zimbabwe and also review the status of all ESDP missions currently deployed, but will not discuss Iran, Cuba [...]
2008-05-23 13:24:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN SP
08MADRID580SPAIN/CUBA: TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT
[...] (U) The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel A, paragraph 5 and updates information reported in reftel B. 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? Spain hosted a highly publicized Human Ri [...]
2008-05-23 14:26:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL SP CU
08MADRID6SPAIN SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LIEBERMAN - CORRECTED
[...] (SBU) Summary: I warmly welcome Senator and Mrs. Lieberman to Madrid. When you arrive, Spain will be emerging from the Holidays and starting to focus on what is likely to be a very competitive March 9 general election. Although the media here prefers to focus on differences in the U.S.-Spain [...]
2008-01-02 11:51:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDOREP PREL SP
08MADRID639CODEL PETERSON DISCUSSES U.S., SPANISH BIOFUELS
[...] (U) Summary. In meetings with GOS and private sector officials during its May 31-June 3 visit to Spain, CODEL Peterson discussed the recent farm bill,s biofuels provisions and the Spanish biofuels industry. The delegation also visited Abengoa's cellulosic ethanol plant in Salamanca on June 1 [...]
2008-06-06 15:07:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR BEXP OREP ENRG KGHG SP
08MADRID64CIVAIR: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON VIOLATION OF FEDERAL
[...] On January 18, Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Santiago Quiros, Case Officer from the Ministry of Infrastructure's Civil Aviation Directorate. Econoff informed Quiros that in August 2007, potential Spanish citizen Jose Munoz allegedly violated U.S. federal aviation regulations by smoking [...]
2008-01-23 08:25:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR SP ECON
08MADRID741DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION'S JULY 3, 2008, MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Chief of Mission Llorens met July 3 with Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Policy Angel Lossada. They discussed Lossada's visit to Washington, our concern over the tone of some recent public remarks by GOS and Socialist Party officials, the Global Initiative to Comba [...]
2008-07-07 11:21:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM NATO KV AF IR SP
08MADRID793MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE JULY 14 -
[...] (U) The IMF maintained its 2008 growth forecast for Spain at 1.8 percent. Growth for the euro zone is estimated at 1.7 percent. However, for 2009 the IMF has revised downwards its growth forecast for Spain by half a percentage point - it estimates Spanish growth will be 1.2 percent. The Fund [...]
2008-07-18 14:33:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ENRG PGOV SP
08MADRID827SPAIN ENGAGES WITH SYRIA TO PROMOTE CONSTRUCTIVE
[...] (C) Ambassador conveyed reftel points to FM Moratinos the morning of July 24. Moratinos said the Spanish sought to engage Syria in dialogue; continual contact would keep Syria focused on the benefits of playing a more constructive role in the region. Moratinos believes that based on the s [...]
2008-07-24 17:09:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN SY SP
08MANAGUA242NICARAGUA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2008
[...] The Free Trade agreement between the United States, Central America, and the Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) entered into force on April 1, 2006, for the United States and Nicaragua. The CAFTA-DR Investment Chapter establishes a secure, predictable legal framework for U.S. investors in Central [...]
2008-03-03 13:11:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON PREL OPIC KTDB USTR NU
08MANAGUA776BIO REPORT: UNGA PRESIDENT-ELECT, MIGUEL D'ESCOTO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 4 Miguel Jeronimo d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, a seventy-five-year-old U.S.-born and -educated, Maryknoll Catholic priest, was elected by acclamation to be President of the 63rd UN General Assembly (UNGA). His election, as the sole candidate from the Latin America Gr [...]
2008-06-17 21:36:00Embassy ManaguaSECRET//NOFORNPINR PREL UNGA NU
08MANAMA12BAHRAIN OFFERS TO HOST UNESCO CONFERENCE TO
[...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa on January 8 to discuss a proposed UNESCO conference aimed at countering extremist influence among young people worldwide. The conference would address problems ranging from the recruitment of child soldiers in Africa, to [...]
2008-01-14 10:59:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV UNESCO KISL BA
08MANAMA288VISIT OF SPECIAL ENVOY SADA CUMBER TO BAHRAIN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-04 12:50:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL SCUL UNESCO KV SA BA
08MANAMA472UNESCO CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS PROACTIVE APPROACHES
[...] (U) Bahrain hosted a U.S.-funded UNESCO conference under the title "Youth at the Crossroads: A Future Without Violent Radicalization" June 15-17 in Manama. The conference brought together over 100 representatives of community-based and national youth programs from around the world to focus on [...]
2008-07-16 13:05:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI KISL PHUM UNESCO BA
08MANILA1838CONTROVERSY OVER SPRATLY ISLANDS TERRITORIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent steep increases in the cost of petroleum and pending deadlines associated with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) have kept the six-nation territorial dispute over the Spratly Islands in the eye of public debate in the Philippines. The underlying controvers [...]
2008-08-01 08:26:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPBTS PGOV PREL RP TW VM CH PG
08MANILA1890Once a Leader, Philippine Education Falls Behind
[...] (SBU) Summary: The quality of education has deteriorated across the Philippines. Inadequate budgets, supply shortages, meagerly paid and poorly educated teachers, and lagging enrollments are producing results that may jeopardize Philippine economic competitiveness and lock Filipinos into pover [...]
2008-08-08 06:30:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD SOCI RP
08MASERU271UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES - MASERU
[...] Ambassador Nolan delivered subject demarche to Minister of Foreign Affairs at the signing of the Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact Entry into Force launch on September 17, 2008. 2. The GOL assured the Ambassador of their continuing support on all issues raised in reftel A. [...]
2008-09-18 10:19:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UN LT
08MBABANE355SWAZILAND: 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT
[...] TARIFFS Swaziland is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO),the Southern African Customs Union (SACU),the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC),and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). As a member of SACU, Swaziland's tariff policies are generally de [...]
2008-11-18 13:58:00Embassy MbabaneUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN WZ
08MEXICO152MEXICO'S 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- PART 2 OF 2
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-22 16:19:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDOPIC KTDB USTR EINV MX
08MEXICO267MEXICO TAKES ON BOARD U.S. VIEWS ON PDG PROGRAMS,
[...] Deputy PolCouns delivered reftel A points to Lorena Larios, Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry's (SRE) Office of International Policy on Human Rights, conveying appreciation for GOM interest in the PDG and calling attention to the importance the PDG attached to projects that aim to impro [...]
2008-01-31 15:29:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KDEM PGOV PHUM POL PREL WHA IZ MX
08MEXICO358MEXICO TO ATTEND PDG MEETING IN PARIS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-08 23:00:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM POL WHA MX
08MINSK232008 Investment Climate Statement for Belarus
[...] Per reftel, the follow is the 2008 Investment Climate Statement for Belarus: Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ The government of Belarus officially welcomes foreign investment, which is seen as a source of new production technologies, jobs and hard currency. T [...]
2008-01-15 15:04:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDECON KTDB OPIC USTR BO
08MINSK262BELARUS: 2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] The following is the submission by Embassy Minsk for Part One of the 2008-2009 INCSR. Please note that post is operating under extreme conditions with only five American staff. Please direct any questions about this report to EUR/UMB. 2. Summary: Belarus remains a transit route for traff [...]
2008-12-19 17:28:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KJUS BO
08MINSK265BELARUS: PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION HEAD ON FURTHER
[...] (SBU) Head of the Belarusian Presidential Administration Vladimir Makey received Charge for a one-on-one, 30-minute meeting December 24. He reported to Charge that "positive political steps" would continue, to include an initiative by the Presidential Administration to form a group or council [...]
2008-12-24 15:06:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ECON PINR BO
08MONROVIA1005LIBERIA: SOLID IPR FRAMEWORK; NO ENFORCEMENT (YET)
[...] Summary: The Liberia Copyright Office (LCO)plans to launch a national anti-piracy program and is requesting USG support. Liberia has a robust legal framework to support intellectual property protection but requires an effective law enforcement and judicial capacity to enforce it and broader p [...]
2008-12-08 16:37:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ETRD EAID ECON LI
08MONROVIA32LIBERIA: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] SUMMARY: There is growing investor interest in Liberia, particularly in agriculture, construction, the extractive industries and tourism. UN sanctions on timber exports were lifted in 2006 and on diamonds in early 2007 as Liberia became compliant with the Kimberly Process. The removal of san [...]
2008-01-14 13:02:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTBD OPIC USTR PGOV LI
08MONROVIA63LIBERIA: MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER ON USG ASSISTANCE,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Liberian Finance Minister Antoinette Sayeh is grateful for USG, especially Treasury, support for the GOL's multilateral debt-relief efforts. The Ministry of Finance (MOF) will assess the best use of USG assistance in the debt management strategy, and welcomes the rapid respons [...]
2008-01-23 14:39:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID ASEC PGOV KCRM EWWT LI
08MONTEVIDEO68VAZQUEZ ANNOUNCES A MAJOR CABINET RESHUFFLE
[...] (U) Summary: President Vasquez announced a major cabinet reshuffle in a February 11 televised address. His long-anticipated changes began in earnest when he convoked several ministers to his residence over the weekend to inform them of their departure. The current Ministers of Foreign Affai [...]
2008-02-12 19:05:00Embassy MontevideoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MARR EAGR ETRD UY
08MOSCOW1298RUSSIA'S CALCULUS ON ABKHAZIA AND HOW TO CHANGE IT
[...] (C) Summary: Abkhaz saber rattling, Tbilisi's war rhetoric, and the reinforcement of Georgia's lingering separatist problems - these are the hallmarks of Russia's policy of keeping Saakashvili's government off-balance and undermining European confidence that Georgia can be a reliable partner [...]
2008-05-08 12:35:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ECON MARR RS
08MOSCOW1302DEMARCHES DELIVERED: RUSSIAN COOPERATION ON
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarches to MFA Afghanistan Desk Chief Yuri Khokhlov on May 8, emphasizing the U.S. desire to cooperate with Russia on counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism and military equipment assistance to Afghanistan. Khokhlov agreed that the U.S. and Russia shared similar goals w [...]
2008-05-08 14:24:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN MARR MASS MCAP OSCE PGOV PINS
08MOSCOW141RUSSIAN SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND INVESTMENT RULES, PART I
[...] (U) On January 9, Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov signed a government resolution that sets the investment parameters for part of the country's sovereign wealth fund. On February 1, the GOR will divide the current Oil Stabilization Fund into two parts: the Reserve Fund and the National Prosperity [...]
2008-01-18 13:22:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW1443DESPITE STRONG TELECOM AND IT SECTORS, MINISTER REIMAN
[...] (SBU) The May 12 GOR cabinet reshuffle replaced IT and Communications Minister Leonid Reiman with longtime Presidential Protocol Chief Igor Shchyogolev. The move surprised observers, who thought Reiman's long personal relationship with Putin and successful development of Russia's communication [...]
2008-05-22 13:18:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL PGOV EINT TINT ECPS RS
08MOSCOW1489RUSSIA-EU SUMMIT PREVIEW: PCA AND EFFORTS TO FIND
[...] (C) Summary. Russian officials believe the long haggling within the EU over the mandate for a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) has eroded the credibility of the process, and hold out the option of reverting to a framework closer to the U.S.-EU agenda if negotiations fail. EU o [...]
2008-05-27 15:43:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ENRG EUN RS
08MOSCOW1587DFM BORODAVKIN DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 31 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Borodavkin was pleased Congressman Rohrabacher valued Russian cooperation in Afghanistan, but explained that Russia was disappointed in the response received so far to its offers of assistance. Borodavkin and Rohrabacher agreed on t [...]
2008-06-04 11:59:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OREP CH PK TX RS AF
08MOSCOW1599PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV'S VISIT TO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Medvedev's visit to China on May 23-24 is seen as confirmation of Russia's desire to project a new foreign policy focus towards other major partners, such as China. At the same time, Putin's visit to Paris (septel) and Medvedev's upcoming trip to Berlin ensure that Russ [...]
2008-06-05 11:19:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMCAP PGOV PINS PREL PROP
08MOSCOW1624 ANNUAL OECD/NEA MULTILATERAL NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) The annual OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Multilateral Nuclear Environment Program in Russia (MNEPR) Committee Meeting took place May 13 in Moscow. Russian officials reviewed the status of the new Rosatom State Corporation. Participants also reviewed the Strategic Master Plan for Nort [...]
2008-06-06 12:46:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG OTRA TRGY TECH FR RS
08MOSCOW1865SIXTEENTH SESSION OF U.S-RUSSIA WORKING GROUP ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-02 10:22:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV EFIN AF IZ RS
08MOSCOW1875SIXTEENTH SESSION OF U.S-RUSSIA WORKING GROUP ON
[...] (C) Summary. The Sixteenth Session of the U.S. - Russia Working Group on Counterterrorism (CTWG) met in Moscow on June 19-20. U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs William Burns and Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak, co-Chairs of the CTWG, led the interagency delegations (delegatio [...]
2008-07-03 08:00:00Embassy MoscowSECRETPREL PTER PGOV EFIN AF IZ RS
08MOSCOW2039MEDVEDEV SPEECH AND FOREIGN POLICY PAPER HIGHLIGHT
[...] Summary: Medvedev's July 15 address to Russian diplomats and the release by the Presidential Administration of an official concept paper laid out Russian policy goals and concerns without breaking new ground (ref A). The paper covered in detail many of the same themes Medvedev made in his spe [...]
2008-07-17 13:27:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EU NATO RS
08MOSCOW2058MEDVEDEV SPEECH AND FOREIGN POLICY PAPER HIGHLIGHT
[...] Summary: Medvedev's July 15 address to Russian diplomats and the release by the Presidential Administration of an official concept paper laid out Russian policy goals and concerns without breaking new ground (ref A). The paper covered in detail many of the same themes Medvedev made in his spe [...]
2008-07-18 15:28:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EU NATO RS
08MOSCOW229RUSSIA'S INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. As Russia's new Institute for Democracy and Cooperation prepares to open its New York and Paris offices, Institute Chairman Kucherena claimed to us that its purpose was not "propaganda," but to provide a Russian perspective on human rights and democracy and to aid in the creat [...]
2008-01-30 14:32:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM RS
08MOSCOW268RUSSIA ON COUNCIL OF EUROPE REFORM
[...] Summary. (C) The GOR told us Russia supported the January reforms to PACE's presidential election process, stressing that it did not perceive the resulting delay until 2010 of Federation Council Deputy Margelov's presidency as a slight against Russia, although recognizing that some member-st [...]
2008-02-01 15:09:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL COE RS
08MOSCOW2721MFA ON SARKOZY-MEDVEDEV PLAN; DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 10 meeting, MFA Director Kelin said the September 8 Sarkozy-Medvedev agreement clearly limited new deployments of OSCE and EU monitors to Georgia proper, with Lavrov dismissing the Sarkozy-Barosso letter as an "unscrupulous attempt" to do Saakashvili's bidding. Ru [...]
2008-09-10 16:37:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR RS GG
08MOSCOW2852RUSSIA CONFIDENT AT PACE
[...] (C) Summary: Russian MFA and Duma representatives are confident that a proposal to strip the Russian delegation of its voting rights at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will fail. However, the MFA has developed a back-up plan to respond "tactically" to developments. [...]
2008-09-24 11:42:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV COE RS
08MOSCOW2935RUSSIA WORKING THE EU TO INFLUENCE THE U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: On October 1, MFA European Cooperation Director Voronkov sketched a Russian strategy to improve relations with the U.S. by working through Europe. Russia's "pragmatic cooperation" with German Chancellor Merkel, Spanish PM Zapatero, Italian PM Berlusconi, and the French leadershi [...]
2008-10-03 03:46:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN COE RS
08MOSCOW3070BURYATIAN ELITE RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER OPPOSITION,
[...] (C) Summary. The Republic of Buryatia, located between Siberia and the Russian Far East, stewards of 60 percent of Lake Baikal's shoreline and the center of Siberian Tibetan Buddhism, remains largely overlooked by Moscow. Run by reputedly corrupt United Russia officials, the Buryatian capit [...]
2008-10-16 14:57:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
08MOSCOW3148LUKIN LOOKS FORWARD TO THE END OF HIS TENURE AS RUSSIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Russian Federation Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin told visiting HFAC Chairman Berman that his term as Ombudsman for the Russian Federation has been a "difficult job of compromises." Lukin said that during his almost five years as Ombudsman, it has been most important for him not to [...]
2008-10-27 13:37:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KCRM KJUS RS
08MOSCOW3153AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DFM RYABKOV: POST-START,
[...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told the Ambassador October 24 the GOR had begun studying the post-START Treaty text delivered that morning. But the need to translate the text and the fact that Russia had not received the missile defense (MD) documents meant November 6 wo [...]
2008-10-27 15:23:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP MARR IR RS
08MOSCOW3352UNDERSECRETARY BURNS' LUNCH WITH DFM RYABKOV:
[...] (S) Summary. DFM Ryabkov November 12 reiterated FM Lavrov's message to U/S Burns and the Ambassador that Russia saw the Sochi Strategic Declaration as the basis for future U.S.-Russian relations, and Medvedev's state of the union address had not been intended as a deliberate slap at President [...]
2008-11-19 12:22:00Embassy MoscowSECRETPREL PGOV MARR KNNP KACT MNUC EFIN AF GG AM
08MOSCOW3650RUSSIAN POSITION ON HUMAN CLONING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-17 03:59:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO UNESCO RS
08MOSCOW375THE INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND COOPERATION;
[...] (C) Summary: The GOR has decided to establish an Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, which will be headquartered in Moscow with branch offices in New York and Paris. The Institute is intended to end what the GOR sees as the western "monopoly" on defining and reporting human rights abus [...]
2008-02-12 14:39:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI PINR RS
08MOSCOW559RUSSIAN OFFICIALS REPORT BETTER TREATMENT FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: GOR officials, including Human Rights Ombudsman Lukin and three members of the Public Chamber visited former YUKOS Vice President Vasiliy Aleksanyan on February 21 in his room in a specialized Moscow hospital. They confirmed that Aleksanyan had initially been chained to his ho [...]
2008-02-29 05:14:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINR KJUS RS
08MOSCOW820AUSTRALIA GROUP: RUSSIA SEEKS US SUPPORT FOR ITS
[...] (SBU) Following is the text of a Russian non-paper FM Lavrov passed to the Secretary on the margins of recent 2 plus 2 talks. English text below is as presented by the GOR. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Pursuant to the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, we have been workin [...]
2008-03-25 16:45:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL RS
08MUSCAT1002008 OMAN INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT: PART II
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-05 13:30:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC MU
08MUSCAT104MEDIA REACTION: GAZA UNDER TWO SEIGES; OMAN JOURNALIST
[...] SUMMARY: The editorial in private Arabic daily "Al Zaman" commented that Fatah leader Abbas is pressuring Hamas for a truce. Private youth-oriented Arabic daily "Al Shabiba" praised an Omani journalist working for Al Hurra TV, saying that Omani journalists can demonstrate their true talent in f [...]
2008-02-06 11:19:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT129MEDIA REACTION: ISRAELI BLOCKADE OF GAZA
[...] SUMMARY: The editorials in private Arabic daily "Al-Watan" and government-owned "Oman" commented on the need to save Palestinians from Israeli attacks on the basis of moral and legal concerns and human rights. END SUMMARY. ------------------------ MORAL AND LEGAL COLLAPSE ------------------ [...]
2008-02-12 13:25:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT145MEDIA REACTION: ISRAEL DENIES PEACE; ISRAEL'S DIPLOMATIC
[...] SUMMARY: Editorials in government-owned "Oman" called for Palestinian unity and a more active Arab role in the peace process. "Oman" also called on Lebanon's political parties to stop inciting Lebanese youth to violence. Private Arabic daily "Al-Watan" called on Palestinians and other Arabs to [...]
2008-02-18 13:11:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT154OMAN UNDECIDED ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION
[...] (C) Oman is not yet prepared to announce a decision on Kosovo independence, according to Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi. In a February 20 phone call with the minister, the Ambassador urged Oman to act quickly to recognize Kosovo's independence. Drawing on guidance [...]
2008-02-20 12:36:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI KV MU
08MUSCAT173MEDIA REACTION: DEMOCRATS ABANDON IRAQ; MOUSSA POSTPONEMENT
[...] SUMMARY: Editorials in government-owned "Oman" said that America has failed to keep its promise to Iraq, evident by escalating violence and pursuit of an exit strategy. Private "Al Watan" described the challenges facing Amr Moussa in bringing the different parties closer. It also hailed Presid [...]
2008-02-27 13:49:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT198SCENESETTER FOR VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Mr. Vice President: Embassy Muscat and my wife and I warmly welcome you and Mrs. Cheney back to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the Middle East -- the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" -- Oman remains a strong and trusted U.S. ally. The Sultan will be please [...]
2008-03-05 15:53:00Embassy MuscatSECRET//NOFORNPARM PHUM PGOV PREL PTER KDEM KNNP KWMN MASS
08MUSCAT237SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE SECRETARY GATES' VISIT TO
[...] (C) Secretary Gates: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the region -- the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" -- the Sultanate remains a strong and trusted U.S. partner. We have requested an audience with Sultan Qaboos bin Sa [...]
2008-03-26 13:29:00Embassy MuscatSECRET//NOFORNPARM PGOV PREL PTER KNNP MASS MNUC MOPS ECON
08MUSCAT281Oman Media Reaction: Gaza Blockade; Anniversary of Iraqi
[...] SUMMARY: State daily "Oman" continues to focus on Israel's blockade of Gaza and on Palestinian suffering, calling for dialogue between Hamas and Fatah. It also condemned not only the Israeli collective punishment against Palestinian civilians, but also condemned the silence of the internationa [...]
2008-04-15 10:05:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT328OMAN MEDIA REACTION: THE SYRIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM, REJECTION
[...] SUMMARY: Private Arabic daily "Al-Watan" writes that America is falling into another Israeli trap over the allegations of Syria's nuclear program, warning against blind support for Israel. State Arabic daily "Oman" criticized Israel for rejecting the Hamas peace proposal. "Al-Watan" also call [...]
2008-04-29 13:19:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT34MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENT'S TOUR TO THE REGION.
[...] SUMMARY: President Bush's tour to the region is garnering extensive local media coverage in Oman. The media described his tour as "controversial" because of his remarks in support of Israel, in local eyes contradicting the purpose of the visit. Both private and government dailies expressed the [...]
2008-01-14 10:55:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT352OMAN MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] SUMMARY: Private Arabic daily "Al-Watan" lamented the Lebanese violence, morbidly predicting unalterable changes to Lebanon's very nature. State-owned Arabic daily "Oman" on May 11 called on Arab nations to play positive, unbiased roles, then, on May 12, backed the Lebanese Army and Suleiman [...]
2008-05-12 12:10:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT374OMAN MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PEACE EFFORTS, DOHA DIALGOUE AND
[...] SUMMARY: State-owned Arabic daily "Oman" recognized the Bush administration's peace efforts, but accused Israel of hindering real progress. "Oman" also signaled its hope for a positive outcome from the Doha dialogue, noting strong international support as the key. In a criticism of the Presid [...]
2008-05-19 12:35:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT385OMAN MEDIA REACTION: NEW LEBANESE PRESIDENT
[...] SUMMARY: News of the Doha Agreement and the election of General Michel Suleiman as Lebanese president preoccupied both the State-owned Arabic daily "Oman" and private Arabic daily "Al-Watan", with editorials describing it as new chapter after lengthy political disturbance, which threatened the [...]
2008-05-26 12:30:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT404OMAN MEDIA REACTION: ISRAELI CHALLENGE TO PEACE IN THE
[...] SUMMARY: Commentaries this week focused on the scandal surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, presenting it as a diversion, likely intentionally created, to stall peace talks and progress on a Golan deal. State Arabic daily "Oman" called on Israel to initiate a prisoner exchange with Hamas [...]
2008-06-02 12:51:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT418OMAN MEDIA REACTION: Trafficking in Persons Report
[...] SUMMARY: While the number of Omani papers responding to date to the release of the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report is to date limited (to wire service material in on English private daily and more targeted coverage in a pair of Arabic and English sister papers),one paper has made the [...]
2008-06-09 04:53:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT434SPECIAL OMAN MEDIA REACTION: BLASTING THE TRAFFICKING
[...] SUMMARY: Omani media, public and private alike and in all outlets, highlighted the strong official response to the 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report (Refs A, B),as made public in comments on June 10 by Foreign Ministry Secretary General Sayyid Badr Al Busaidi via a text released by the offici [...]
2008-06-14 10:26:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM OIIP SMIG KPAO ELAB KCRM KMDR MU
08MUSCAT454OMAN MEDIA REACTION: Ongoing Trafficking Coverage
[...] SUMMARY: Negative coverage of the TIP report continued to dominate news articles, editorials, and commentaries through the weekend and into Monday. After recent statements to the press from the Majlis A'Shura (reftel Muscat 444) and other government officials, Foreign Ministry Secretary Genera [...]
2008-06-16 11:57:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT469OMAN MEDIA REACTION: MORE PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON TIP;
[...] SUMMARY: Press coverage of TIP continued at the same elevated level reported in reftel, with over a dozen articles appearing in English and Arabic since Monday, June 16. On Tuesday, June 17, the Oman Journalist Association (OJA) issued a statement, carried in all dailies, in line with other of [...]
2008-06-21 12:39:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT477OMAN MEDIA REACTION: MORE OFFICIALS COMMENT ON TIP
[...] SUMMARY: After a one day respite on June 22, Omani media took up arms again against the TIP report on June 23. Sayyid Badr al Busaidy, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that Oman has "protested in the strongest terms," and "the report is unjustified," in a Reuters a [...]
2008-06-23 13:28:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT493OMAN MEDIA REACTION: MORE TIP COVERAGE
[...] SUMMARY: TIP media coverage has abated slightly, but still remains a focus of media attention. Last week saw only one additional formal statement by an Omani official or institution, the State Council, whose statement did not mention TIP directly. A news report by Arabic daily "As Shabiba" l [...]
2008-07-01 09:16:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT513OMAN MEDIA REACTION: GULF IGNORED OVER IRAN ISSUE
[...] SUMMARY: Omani press focused this week on the nuclear tensions between Israel and Iran, pushing TIP further to the background. Arabic daily "Al Watan" criticized the U.S. administration for ignoring the Gulf in its Iran strategy. An online discussion forum asking about Oman's reaction to a po [...]
2008-07-07 12:42:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT528OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Commentaries this week focused on Oman's and the Gulf's relationship to U.S. in the context of the Iran situation. "As Shabiba" reported on the Omani Foreign Ministry's decision not to send an ambassador to Baghdad and criticized the U.S. for allowing Iranian influence in Iraq to gro [...]
2008-07-14 13:56:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT537OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Local papers focused heavily on International Criminal Court (ICC) action against the Sudanese president, with government-owned daily "Oman" calling it a plot by superpowers to rob Sudan. "Oman" expressed optimism over U.S. participation in the Geneva talks on the Iranian nuclear iss [...]
2008-07-21 13:11:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT550OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Government-daily "Oman" praised the Arab League's support for Sudan's proposal to form special human rights courts, calling for more strong action by Arabs in Sudan's defense against the ICC. Private daily "Al Watan" said that U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's statements sh [...]
2008-07-28 12:05:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT558OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Editorials and commentaries in Oman's dailies focused on the negative effect of Israeli Prime Minister Olmert's resignation and the U.S. elections on the peace process, and on violence between Palestinian groups. Articles in private daily "Al Watan" called Israel's negotiations with [...]
2008-08-04 12:11:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT583OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Editorials over the past week have primarily focused on visits by Sultan Qaboos to Libya, Egypt, and Jordan, and have stuck safely to standard language and praise. On regional issues, private daily "AL-Watan" noted that Palestinians should expect little from the visit of the U.S. Se [...]
2008-08-18 12:20:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT599OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: State daily "Oman" commented on the release of 200 Palestinian prisoners, it was surprising that there were Palestinian personalities revealed their identities and ideological belonging. "Oman" also stressed the importance of Iraqi stability for the region. Private daily "Al-Watan" h [...]
2008-08-25 12:29:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT626OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: While the state daily "Oman" praised U.S. efforts toward Israeli-Palestinian peace, private daily "Al-Watan" accused the American administration of a week stand on the issue, decrying a lack of firmness toward Israel. "Al-Watan" also suggested that the Israeli Prime Minister's proposa [...]
2008-09-03 06:27:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT640OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Daily "Al-Watan" urged GCC countries and Iran to quickly settle the territorial dispute with the United Arab Emirates. On September 5, "Al Watan" attacked Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's description of the Iraq war as divine action. State daily "Oman" hailed Syria's progre [...]
2008-09-08 12:18:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT661OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Arabic daily "Al Watan" wrote twice on the crisis in Darfur, calling for the establishment of an Arab mechanism for conflict resolution and praising the Arab Foreign Ministers' intent to seize initiative. Government daily "Oman" blamed conspirators for creating regional instability w [...]
2008-09-15 12:25:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT681OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: State Arabic daily "Oman" criticized corrupt Omani businessmen for their role in Oman's Tier 3 Trafficking in Persons rating. Private daily "Al Shabiba" warned that a lack of true freedom of expression was causing a backsliding to tribalism. Another "Al Shabiba" editorial accused sen [...]
2008-09-23 11:52:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT696OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Government daily "Oman" praised recent agreements in Lebanon to remove antagonistic party slogans from the streets. "Oman" also called on all Gulf countries to protect themselves from the American economic crisis, calling for "appropriate precautionary measures". Private daily "Al-Wa [...]
2008-09-30 05:14:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT70MEDIA REACTION: GAZA STRIP; LEBANON; ARAB FOREIGN MINISTERS
[...] SUMMARY: Editorials in private daily "al Watan" call the U.S. veto of the UNSC draft resolution on Gaza "typical discriminatory policy". Another "al Watan" editorial states that Arab foreign ministers find themselves at a difficult crossroad at the Arab Leagues meeting on Lebanon. State daily " [...]
2008-01-29 12:18:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT708OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: This week, Omani dailies continued to comment on the global financial crisis and the Middle East peace process. Government Arabic daily "Oman" sounded another call for governments to act with fiscal responsibility. "Oman" also predicted a stagnation of the Middle East peace process a [...]
2008-10-06 13:02:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT721OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Omani dailies continued writing on the global financial crisis. Private daily "Al Watan" predicted the rise of a multi-polar world as a result of economic shifts. Private daily "Al Shabiba" said the economic crisis is another failure of the U.S. administration, causing allies to ree [...]
2008-10-14 12:48:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT772OMAN REACTS TO THE U.S. ELECTIONS
[...] SUMMARY: As the November 4 presidential election approached, on Election Day, and in the immediate wake of the election results being announced, Omanis at all levels have been remarkably focused on events as they unfolded. In the media, online, and in person at a range of recent events, we ha [...]
2008-11-12 10:05:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT843OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Omani dailies focused this week on the Mumbai attacks and transition of administrations. Government daily "Oman" signaled that the Mumbai attacks require a united, international response to the evolving threat of terrorism. Private Arabic daily "Al Watan" commented that American pol [...]
2008-12-14 05:17:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08MUSCAT850OMAN MEDIA REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: This week, Omani dailies continued commentary on the Mumbai attacks, repeating calls for calm and cooperation. Government Arabic daily "Oman" called the Iraq-U.S. SOFA an "achievement" for the Iraqi people, and private Arabic "Al Watan" claimed that Israel's lies have "flourished" ov [...]
2008-12-16 13:21:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR MU
08NAIROBI1 U.S. Government Statement on Kenyan Elections
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-01 07:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PREL KE
08NAIROBI1041KENYA'S CABINET SWORN IN: AN OVERVIEW
[...] (U) Ending weeks of contentious in-fighting between President Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) and Prime Minister Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM),Kenya's expanded cabinet was sworn in today, April 17, with much pomp and ceremony. As announced by the President on April 13 (see [...]
2008-04-18 10:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1122RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY
[...] (U) This message responds to ref A request for Mission Kenya's analysis on how rising food and agricultural commodity prices are affecting Kenyan society. As instructed, it also lists post's recent cables on this matter. ------------------------------ CONTEXT OF KENYA'S FOOD CRISIS ------ [...]
2008-04-29 10:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV KE
08NAIROBI1125SENIOR OFFICIALS ARRESTED AS WARDEN STRIKE
[...] A prison work slowdown has brought severe disruption to Kenya's correctional institutions. The slowdown which was announced on April 25 has resulted in substantial problems in jails throughout Kenya. In his capacity as Minister of Home Affairs, Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka oversees the pri [...]
2008-04-29 11:29:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV CASC ASEC KE
08NAIROBI1126KIBAKI, ODINGA AGREE ON KEY CIVIL SERVICE
[...] President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga have agreed on the appointment of high-level civil service appointments for the new grand coalition government. On April 22, President Kibaki announced the names of Permanent Secretaries (PS) for the 42 Cabinet positions, as well as 23 Secretaries fo [...]
2008-04-29 12:28:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1169FOLLOWING UP ON THE ACTIVISTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND
[...] The Chief of Mission regularly meets with a wide range of Somali businessmen and activists resident in Nairobi to urge them to join Somalia's reconciliation process and to advance human rights and democracy. The Chief of Mission also regularly meets with Somali media resident in Nairobi for [...]
2008-05-07 06:28:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KE
08NAIROBI1170UPDATE ON COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO POST-ELECTION
[...] As a result of the Kofi Annan-led mediation efforts to end Kenya's post-election crisis, Kenya's political leaders agreed to form a Commission of Inquiry on Post-Election Violence (Violence Commission) and a Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC). The Violence Commission is pre [...]
2008-05-07 06:39:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1183Somalia Prime Minister Briefs Ambassador and Special Envoy
[...] (C) Somalia Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein briefed the Ambassador and Special Envoy on preparations for direct talks with the opposition in Djibouti, current security and governance concerns and challenges, and ongoing efforts at reconciliation. End Summary. ------------------------ A Gri [...]
2008-05-07 13:26:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC PTER MOPS SO
08NAIROBI1222KENYA COAST PEACE CONFERENCE DRAWS SRO
[...] SUMMARY: Mombasa American Presence Post Officer (APPO) based in Nairobi attended a one- day peace conference in Mombasa. The conference, the theme of which was "Sustainable Peace and Development in the Coast" drew a standing-room- only crowd. Guests included provincial and district officia [...]
2008-05-12 08:17:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KE
08NAIROBI1301INDEPENDENT REVIEW COMMISSION CHAIR PUZZLED BY
[...] (C) The Ambassador and Emboffs recently met with Independent Review Commission (IREC) Chairman Judge Johann Kriegler to discuss IREC's top-to-bottom review of Kenya's electoral system and the bungled 2007 presidential elections (ref A). The Commission has a two-part mandate: (1) to assess and [...]
2008-05-21 10:49:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1328MOUNT ELGON: LOCAL NGO AND KENYAN NATIONAL
[...] (C) Poloff met with the Executive Director of the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU),a Kenyan human rights organization, who led an investigative team on a week-long fact-finding trip to the Mount Elgon region. The findings of the team corroborate earlier allegations made by local and int [...]
2008-05-27 06:55:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALMOPS ASEC PGOV PHUM KE
08NAIROBI1336AG MINISTER RUTO VOWS TO REMOVE DUTIES ON WHEAT IN MEETING
[...] SUMMARY: Kenyan Minister for Agriculture William Ruto promised the Ambassador on May 8, 2008 that he would remove the 35% tariff on imported wheat as a way to ease inflationary pressures on bread prices. The Minister also agreed to work closely with the Kenyan Ministry of Science and Technolog [...]
2008-05-28 08:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD TBIO ECON EAID EFIN PGOV KE
08NAIROBI1373KENYA CORRUPTION UPDATE - LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
[...] (C) Summary: The bad news on the corruption front in Kenya is that the new coalition government has given some of the country's most egregious thieves a new lease on life and strengthened their already strong sense of impunity. Meanwhile, Kenya's legal system continues to stymie vs. deliver j [...]
2008-06-04 12:39:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKCOR PREL ECON EFIN KE
08NAIROBI1384KENYA BRACES FOR PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTIONS ON
[...] (C) Kenya will hold parliamentary by-elections on June 11 to fill five of six vacant parliamentary seats. The largest parliamentary blocs, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the Party of National Unity (PNU),hope to gain seats, but each of the races is tight. The results are unlikely [...]
2008-06-05 15:01:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1505KENYA REDUCES TARIFFS ON WHEAT AND CORN IMPORTS
[...] Summary: Kenya has reduced its duties on imported wheat from 35 percent to 10 percent and plans to import 297,000 tons of corn duty free. Corn normally is assessed a 50 percent import duty. This fulfills a commitment made by the Minister for Agriculture William Ruto to the Ambassador during a [...]
2008-06-19 13:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD TBIO ECON EAID EFIN PGOV KE
08NAIROBI1658SENATOR BILL NELSON (D-FL) MEETS WITH PRIME
[...] (C) Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) met on June 30 with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The two discussed continuing USG-GOK cooperation in combating terrorism and security threats to Kenya presented by ongoing lawlessness in Somalia. Odinga discussed his recent trip to Washington and the nee [...]
2008-07-07 14:32:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1692MINISTER OF FINANCE RESIGNS IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL
[...] (C) Minister of Finance Amos Kimunya resigned on July 8, capping a week of intense speculation about his political future stemming from his role in the cut-rate sale of the Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi. The hotel, built with proceeds from the 1990s Goldenberg corruption scandal, had become [...]
2008-07-09 16:30:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM EFIN KCOR KE LY
08NAIROBI1698GOK BILL OUTLINES ROADMAP TO NEW CONSTITUTION
[...] The Ministry of Justice recently published the Constitution of Kenya Review Bill of 2008, outlining the process for writing and adopting a new constitution. The new constitution could take as long as 24 months to enter into force, not the 12 months agreed at the Kofi Annan-led mediation eff [...]
2008-07-11 04:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1838POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE COMMISSION BEGINS HEARING
[...] (SBU) The Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (the Waki Commission) has begun hearing testimony from security officials, and civil society organizations. The heads of the main Kenyan security agencies have testified. Each attempted to portray, with varying degrees of success, h [...]
2008-07-30 10:31:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI185PARLIAMENT ELECTS SPEAKER--A GOOD DAY FOR KENYA
[...] On January 15 Kenya's Tenth Parliament sat for its first session. In a boisterous but mostly civil session, Parliament elected the Orange Democratic Movement's (ODM) Kenneth Marende as Speaker. ODM's candidate for Deputy Speaker was also elected, again beating a PNU candidate. This event has [...]
2008-01-17 04:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
08NAIROBI186PARLIAMENT ELECTS SPEAKER--A GOOD DAY FOR KENYA
[...] On January 15 Kenya's Tenth Parliament sat for its first session. In a boisterous but mostly civil session, Parliament elected the Orange Democratic Movement's (ODM) Kenneth Marende as Speaker. ODM's candidate for Deputy Speaker was also elected, again beating a PNU candidate. This event has [...]
2008-01-17 04:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
08NAIROBI198KENYA ELECTIONS: PARLIAMENT COMPOSITION - A
[...] (SBU) Unlike Kenya's contentious presidential election, the parliamentary elections proceeded relatively smoothly and with a clear and credible outcome. With 207 of 210 constituencies reporting (3 constituencies will be re-run),Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) won 99 of the 207 [...]
2008-01-17 16:21:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI199KENYA: DID KIBAKI REALLY STEAL THE ELECTION?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya's hotly contested December 27 presidential election has been controversial on a number of levels, and many observers still question who actually won. When we looked at any and all available data to try to answer that question, we found evidence of rigging on both sides an [...]
2008-01-17 17:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCOR PREL KE
08NAIROBI2253MT. ELGON: STATUS OF INVESTIGATIONS ALLEGATIONS OF
[...] (C) In late July, the international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a second, more detailed report alleging security forces' involvement in serious human rights violations during the joint military-police operation against the Sabaot Land Defense Force (SLDF) in Mt. Elgon in March-April 200 [...]
2008-09-24 15:57:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM MOPS MASS KPKO KCRM KE
08NAIROBI2401POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE COMMISSION RELEASES REPORT
[...] (U) The Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV) submitted its report to President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on October 15 (Ref A). The report proposes the establishment of a special tribunal to try high-level organizers of post-election violence. It also p [...]
2008-10-21 15:26:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI245KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: KOFI ANNAN - A NEW
[...] Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in Nairobi on January 22 with the strong public backing of the United States, the African Union, the European Union, and the United Nations. He gave a press conference upon arrival in which he evinced a no-nonsense, serious and determined approac [...]
2008-01-23 14:11:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2588U.S. ELECTION DAY IN KENYA
[...] Summary. Kenyans see President-elect Barack Obama as their "favorite son," and are delighted by his election. The Ambassador hosted an early morning November 5 event attended by over 2,000 Kenyans to watch the results, and issued a statement highlighting the transparent and peaceful nature of [...]
2008-11-13 12:39:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KDEM PGOV KE
08NAIROBI2613MARTHA KARUA ELECTED AS NARC-KENYA PARTY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 14, a convention of 2,000 delegates of the National Rainbow Coalition - Kenya (NARC-Kenya) elected current Minister of Justice, National Cohesion, and Constitutional Affairs Martha Karua as its Chairperson. Karua has made no secret of her desire to contest the 2012 K [...]
2008-11-19 08:28:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2660EL WAK RESIDENTS ACCUSE KENYAN SECURITY FORCES OF
[...] (C) Summary. 34 residents of El Wak, North Eastern Province, interviewed by Embassy Officers have alleged that Kenyan security forces, primarily police, engaged in human rights abuses as part of an operation in late October to confiscate illegal arms. The pattern of operations -- and allega [...]
2008-11-25 12:32:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MOPS ASEC KE
08NAIROBI2696PARTIES SCRAMBLE TO COMPLY WITH POLITICAL PARTIES
[...] Kenya's notoriously disorganized political parties are scrambling to comply with a series of administrative, organizational, and financial requirements imposed by the Political Parties Act (the Act) before the December 31 deadline. The Act aims to bring much-needed order to Kenya's party sys [...]
2008-12-02 09:32:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2710GOK EFFORT TO PRESERVE VITAL FOREST HITS POLITICAL
[...] The Kenyan government's (GOK) attempt to preserve and restore the environmentally and economically important Mau Forest Complex (the Mau Forest) by evicting legal and illegal settlers (reftel) has caused political problems within Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) p [...]
2008-12-04 06:36:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG SENV SOCI KE
08NAIROBI2716 KENYA ASPIRES TO BUILD A NUCLEAR PLANT BY 2015
[...] As reported in ref B, although it has no known fissionable material, Kenya aspires to build its first medium-sized 1,000 MW nuclear plant by 2015 as part of a multifaceted strategy to boost power production. The Government of Kenya (GOK) will appeal to the private sector to finance the plant' [...]
2008-12-04 12:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY EINV SENV BEXP BTIO KE
08NAIROBI2722 NO SALES OF KENYAN RUBIES TO BURMA
[...] Summary: According to three senior Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources officials, Kenya does not export rubies to Burma. End Summary. 2. In separate December 4 meetings with Kenya's Commissioner of Mines and Geology Lojomon Biwott, acting Chief Geologist Shadrack Kimomo, and Ward [...]
2008-12-05 09:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EMIN ECON PREL PGOV EFIN BM KE
08NAIROBI2740Kenyan Prime Minister says "Mugabe Must Go"
[...] Speaking at an international press conference on December 7 in Nairobi, Prime Minister Raila Odinga called Robert Mugabe's government a "vile dictatorship" that must be stopped. Odinga urged the African Union to send troops to end the humanitarian crisis, or allow the UN to do so. "The inter [...]
2008-12-09 06:18:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KPAO KE
08NAIROBI2747GOK PREPARES TO OUST ELECTORAL COMMISSION
[...] On November 27, the Cabinet approved a draft constitutional amendment which will disband the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and remove all 22 current ECK commissioners. If, as expected, Parliament approves the measure before it recesses on December 18, the ECK will be replaced by an Int [...]
2008-12-10 12:38:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2768PRESIDENT SIGNS TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND RECONCILIATION
[...] On November 28, President Mwai Kibaki signed into law the Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Act (the Act). The Act creates a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) to establish a complete record of violation of human and economic rights from the time of Kenya's independence in [...]
2008-12-11 14:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM KCRM KE
08NAIROBI277KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS - INTERNATIONAL HUMAN
[...] Summary: The post-election violence that has killed over 700 people and displaced an estimated 250,000 more has drawn the attention of international human rights groups and institutions. Human Rights Watch currently has a research team in country to collect information and analyze events and [...]
2008-01-25 09:15:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL KE
08NAIROBI278KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: ODM HOLDS MOSTLY
[...] The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) on January 23 held public funerals in Nairobi, Kisumu (Nyanza Province),and Kakamega (Western Province) for victims of Kenya's post-election violence. These deaths were all alleged by ODM to be the result of police action, and not civilian on civilian vi [...]
2008-01-25 09:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
08NAIROBI279KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: MINISTER OF INTERNAL
[...] On January 24 we received Minister of Internal Security George Saitoti's response to the Ambassador's letter of January 17 (reftel) requesting; 1) a precise statement of the Rules of Engagement currently in effect for Kenyan security forces in dealing with unarmed peaceful demonstrators; 2) a [...]
2008-01-25 09:26:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2850PROTESTS OVER RESTRICTIVE MEDIA BILL
[...] Parliament passed a Media Bill on December 10 which, if signed by President Mwai Kibaki, would potentially subject the independent media to intrusive government interference. The Media Bill was presented to Parliament and the public as a series of amendments to the Communications Act of 1998. [...]
2008-12-19 13:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO KE
08NAIROBI2851PARLIAMENT AMENDS CONSTITUTION, OUSTS ELECTORAL
[...] Parliament on December 16 passed the Kenya Constitution Amendment Bill of 2008 (the Amendment). The Amendment follows the recommendations of the Kriegler Commission (Reftel B) and abolishes the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK),which was widely discredited for its mishandling of Kenya's 2 [...]
2008-12-19 13:02:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM KE
08NAIROBI309KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: ODM MP SLAIN - VIOLENCE
[...] (U) The opposition Orange Democratic Movement MP for Embakasi (Nairobi),Melitus Were, was murdered by two gunmen as he was driving up to his home just after midnight on January 29. In the current crisis, the perception that this is a politically-motivated killing has taken hold. Were was a L [...]
2008-01-29 13:26:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI356KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: SECOND OPPOSITION MP
[...] On January 31, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM-opposition) Member of Parliament for Ainamoi (Kericho District, Rift Valley) David Kimutai Too (ethnic Kalenjin) was shot dead in Eldoret by Police Constable Andrew Moache (ethnic Kisii). The police maintain this was a "crime of passion," with C [...]
2008-02-01 13:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI378KENYA: LINKING VISAS TO VIOLENCE
[...] (C) To follow up on recent statements by Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer and the Ambassador indicating that the Department will review the visa eligibility of Kenyan politicians and businessmen suspected of supporting, inciting, or perpetrating violence in Kenya, Post delivered eight letter [...]
2008-02-05 15:52:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALCVIS PGOV KCOR PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI506Somalia Prime Minister's European Travel and Security
[...] (C) Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein briefed the Ambassador February 15 on his trip to Brussels and Paris. He also outlined his recent efforts at reconciliation, and spoke of his concerns about security in Mogadishu and those tasked to ensure it. End Summary. ----------------------------- E [...]
2008-02-20 07:43:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SO ET
08NAIROBI521 BEEF, BREAD, AND BUTTER GETTING SCARCER AND PRICIER IN
[...] (U) Summary. Agricultural analysts predict that Kenya may suffer food shortages by late 2008 if post-election violence does not stop. Government stockpiles of corn will suffice for the next seven months, but observers note that many farmers in the upper Rift Valley have been unable to work t [...]
2008-02-21 12:31:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ETRD ELAB PGOV KE
08NAIROBI598Kenya's Mayoral Elections Show ODM Strength,
[...] Summary: On February 25, Kenyan city councils nationwide held mayoral elections. Comporting with the sordid tradition of such elections in Kenya, tales of blatant vote-buying and graft abounded on all sides. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) won a plurality of council seats nationwide du [...]
2008-02-28 13:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI680Ambassador Addresses Kenya Law Society
[...] The following is the text of a speech delivered by the Ambassador to the Law Society of Kenya's Annual Dinner on March 8. It received extraordinary positive coverage in national and local television, radio, and print media: Begin text: --------------------------------------------- ------ [...]
2008-03-10 14:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI803 Kenya After the Crisis: The Ambassador's Visit
[...] (U) Summary. On March 1-2 the Ambassador visited several areas of Rift Valley which were hit hard by the post-election violence. While all these areas were calm in the wake of the signing of the February 28 political accord, they remain traumatized by what happened. People are hopeful that [...]
2008-03-20 16:22:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID ASEC PHUM KE US
08NAIROBI855KENYA'S NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AND EMERGENCY SOCIAL AND
[...] Summary: On March 17, 2005, the Grand Coalition Government of Kenya (GCG) unveiled the National Reconciliation and Emergency Social and Economic Recovery Strategy. This strategy paper, which has been transmitted as an e-mail attachment to State/AF/E and USAID/AFR/EA, presents actions that the [...]
2008-03-28 09:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EFIN PGOV KE
08NDJAMENA106FRENCH READY FOR ONE LAST CHAD EVACUATION, ACTIVE IN PROMOTING POLITICAL REFORM PROCESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the French Charge D'Aaffaires, a reprise of the February 2-3 attack on N'Djamena is less likely, particularly in view of the thinning Zaghawa forces Timan Erdimi's RFC. France is ready to perform another evacuation if need be, but a second evacuation would trigger t [...]
2008-03-20 13:44:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF CD SU CASC
08NDJAMENA108EASTERN CHAD: EUFOR OUTPACING MINURCAT, IMPROVING SECURITY
[...] SUMMARY. Despite earlier delays, the European Mission in eastern Chad has now leapfrogged impressively ahead of the UN police training mission which provides the raison d'etre for its presence. Hopes are pinned on the recent arrival of UN Special Representative Victor Angelo to speed up MINUR [...]
2008-03-20 16:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PGOV ASEC CD SU
08NDJAMENA111NEW SRSG FOR MINURCAT/EAST CHAD GIVES AMBASSADOR
[...] (U) This is an action message: See para 10. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) New MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo briefed ambassador 3/21 on progress since he arrived two weeks ago, especially signing a Status of Mission Agreement with the GOC, after having successfully for now resisted GO [...]
2008-03-25 10:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PREF MARR EAID UN EU SU CD
08NDJAMENA119CHAD FOREIGN MINISTER: GIVE BORDER MONITORING MORE
[...] (C) Summary: In a wide ranging meeting with Chad Foreign Minister Allam-mi the Ambassador broached the topic of what messages the United States might usefully convey to Chadian rebels that approached us. Allam-mi urged commitment to the Sirte accords and asked for U.S. assistance in putting [...]
2008-03-28 12:42:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF SU CD
08NDJAMENA126CHADIAN INSIDER CONFIRMS RIFT WITH JEM, UNITY
[...] (C) A rift has emerged between the Chadian Government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),a businessman with close ties to President Deby and a prominent SLA/Unity commander, told Poloff. Verifying previous reports that SLA/Unity's leadership has ceased its infighting and coalesced a [...]
2008-03-31 17:57:00Embassy NdjamenaSECRETPREL PGOV UN AU CD
08NDJAMENA127DAUSA DEBY IMPLIES MORE DIRECT CHADIAN ROLE IN
[...] (C) The international community is ill-suited to mediate the Darfur conflict without the assistance of the Chadian Government, Dausa Deby, the influential half brother of President Idriss Deby and long-time interlocutor with Darfur's rebel movements, told Poloff. Recalling Chad's success in b [...]
2008-04-01 09:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN AU CD SU
08NDJAMENA128CHAD: PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCED REBEL
[...] (U) On April 1, Chadian Prime Minister Kassire convoked the diplomatic corps at his office to announce that at 6:40 a.m. Chad time a group of armed rebels had attacked Ade, 68 kilometers from the Chad/Sudan border. Prime Minister Kassire stated that this attack was proof that Sudanese Presid [...]
2008-04-01 13:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CD SU
08NDJAMENA149PRESIDENT DEBY ON TALKING TO REBELS, THREAT
[...] (C) President Deby told Ambassador April 8 that he welcomed U.S. interest in engaging with Chadian rebel factions to encourage them to lay down weapons and seek a peaceful solution to their grievances. Deby asked the United States to support ongoing regional efforts to reduce tensions between [...]
2008-04-09 15:50:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MARR MASS SU CD
08NDJAMENA163SRSG ANGELO MULLS MINURCAT ROLE IN MILITARY BORDER
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: SEE PARA 6. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: UN SRSG VICTOR ANGELO TOLD THE AMBASSADOR 4/16 THAT A UN FORCE OF 100-150 MILITARY OBSERVERS COULD BE PLACED RELATIVELY QUICKLY ALONG THE CHAD-SUDAN BORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE DAKAR PEACE ACCORD IF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL (UNSC) W [...]
2008-04-17 16:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CD UN EU SU MARR MASS SE LY
08NDJAMENA165CHAD'S NEW PRIME MINISTER: MR. RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary: Youssouf Saleh Abbas, Chad's new Prime Minister (and former International Visitor) sees himself as a patriot with a "visceral" attachment to national unity. He brings to the position experience in national reconciliation and credibility (as a former member of the MDJT rebel group) [...]
2008-04-18 18:09:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF SU CD
08NDJAMENA171CHAD PRIME MINISTER ASKS U.S. HELP IN
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2. (C) Summary: New Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas urgently asked for U.S. assistance in requesting the postponement of what he fears may be a World Bank decision to terminate activities in Chad. We agree that the new government should be g [...]
2008-04-21 17:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EAID CD
08NDJAMENA18ESCALATING TENSIONS AS A CONFIDENT DEBY ATTACKS
[...] (C) Summary: On January 5, Chadian President Deby delivered a blunt and confrontational speech to a pro-government rally accusing Sudan of trying to destabilize Chad by backing Chad's rebel groups. Meanwhile, news media reported on January 7 that Chadian forces bombed rebel bases along the Dar [...]
2008-01-08 14:18:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL CD SU
08NDJAMENA197REQUEST FOR USG ASSISTANCE TO CHADIAN NATIONAL
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: SEE PARA 6. 2. (SBU) THE USG COULD SIGNIFICANTLY SUPPORT THE "OPENING" OF THE CHADIAN INTERNAL POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT PROCESS BY PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE COMMISSION SET UP TO SHED LIGHT ON EVENTS FOLLOWING THE FAILED REBEL ATTACK O [...]
2008-04-30 13:22:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CD UN PREF PHUM EU SU
08NDJAMENA198JEM RECRUITING IN CHAD REFUGEE CAMPS
[...] (SBU) On Friday, April 25 the Ambassador raised reftel points with Minister Mahamat Ali Nassour. (Nassour is the outgoing Minister of Defense and was formerly Minister of the Interior). Nassour served as the Chair of the Darfur Cease-Fire Commission when it was based in Chad and continues to [...]
2008-05-02 09:15:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF SU CD
08NDJAMENA228NEW SRSG FOR MINURCAT/EAST CHAD GIVES AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) The PRM Chad Program Officer met with UN Mission to the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) Police Commissioner Antero Lopes to discuss the status of MINURCAT,s deployment. The deployment has been delayed several months but seems to be finally picking up speed under the current [...]
2008-05-22 09:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MARR EAID UN EU SU CD
08NDJAMENA238CHAD RESPONSE: CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since reopening its embassy in N'djamena in 2006, China's engagement with Chad has focused on responding to a variety of needs expressed by the Chadian government. Among the focus areas of Sino-Chadian cooperation are social services, energy, infrastructure, and military assistan [...]
2008-05-29 17:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG PREL CD
08NDJAMENA248THE FIRST 30 DAYS: CHAD'S NEW "GOVERNMENT OF
[...] (SBU) In its first month in office, Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas's new "government of National reconciliation" has brought key former opposition figures into the cabinet; welcomed the reformed opposition coalition back to participation in the electoral reform process; seen the Commissio [...]
2008-06-05 13:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM EFIN ECON SU LY CD
08NDJAMENA259UK AMBASSADOR TO CHAD SHOULD VISIT CHAD REGULARLY TO
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: SEE PARA 6. 2. (SBU) THE UK AMBASSADOR TO CHAD, WHO IS RESIDENT AS HIGH COMMISSIONER IN YAOUNDE, SHOULD VISIT CHAD REGULARLY TO REINFORCE BOTH THE UN AND EU PKO MISSIONS HERE. A REGULAR VISIT BY UK AMBASSADOR WOULD SERVE USG INTERESTS BY DEMONSTRATING BROA [...]
2008-06-20 08:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM UK EU UN CD
08NDJAMENA274CHAD'S LATEST "MADHI MOVEMENT" IN CENTRAL PART OF
[...] (U) The Chad Government is reporting that its security forces crushed a violent religious extremist movement led by a self-proclaimed "Madhi" (spiritual leader) centered in the town of Kouni in south-central Chad, after peaceful efforts to dissuade the "Madhi" to moderate his rhetoric and thre [...]
2008-07-03 16:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PTER SOCI ASEC CD
08NDJAMENA276SRSG SEEKS CHANGES TO MINURCAT MANDATE TO PREPARE -- FOR EXPANDED UN PKO TO REPLACE EUFOR IN CHAD, CAR.
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE: SEE PARA 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: SRSG Victor Angelo briefed UNSC member Chiefs of Mission July 3 on the upcoming report of the UNSYG on the UN Mission to Chad and CAR. He requested that UNSC member Chiefs of Mission alert capitals and PermReps of the changes [...]
2008-07-07 12:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO PREF PHUM UN EU LY CT CD SU
08NDJAMENA288 HARD TIMES: CHAD NEEDS USG HELP TO MEND FENCES
[...] (U) This is an action message: See para 15. ------------ Summary: ------------ 2. (SBU) Chad's new Prime Minister believes that the World Bank already has unfairly and unilaterally decided at the highest level to end its relationship with Chad in the petroleum sector, which would be [...]
2008-07-14 13:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EFIN IMF IBRD EPET ETRD CD
08NDJAMENA29HABRE TRIAL: "LET IT BE MEANINGFUL AND ACCESSIBLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador, Human Rights Watch Advocacy Director Reed Brody stressed the need for the trial of former Chadian President Hissein Habre to be meaningful and accessible to Chadians. Human Rights Watch is urging Senegal to speed up and simplify the process lead [...]
2008-01-14 12:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM CD
08NDJAMENA292FORMIN FAKI SAYS GOC SEEKS BIGGER UN
[...] (C) FORMIN Faki told Ambassador July 14 that although Chad was committed to the Dakar Accord process, the GOC was becoming less confident in the "practicability" of implementation of the process's key piece -- military observers along the Chad-Sudan borders to identify violations by governmen [...]
2008-07-15 15:05:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MARR KPKO UN EU
08NDJAMENA299MINURCAT - SRSG SEEKS USG SUPPORT TO KEEP IT IN
[...] (U) This is an Action Message: See Para 6. 2. (C) SRSG Victor Angelo (PROTECT) asked me yesterday in confidence yesterday for USG assistance regarding the renewal of MINURCAT,s mandate, required before 25 September. Angelo asked for USG help (A) in overcoming reticence within the UN bure [...]
2008-07-18 10:48:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF MARR KPKO UN EU FR SU CD
08NDJAMENA325SCENESETTER FOR SE WILLIAMSON VISIT TO CHAD
[...] (SBU) CHAD UNDER PRESSURE: SPECIAL ENVOY FOR SUDAN WILLIAMSON'S VISIT TO N'DJAMENA COMES AS THE RAINY SEASON LULL MASKS CONTINUING TENSION ALONG THE CHAD-SUDANESE BORDER, AS CHADIAN REBELS WHO OPERATE FROM OF SUDAN SANCTUARIES ARE HAMPERED BY WEATHER AND TERRAIN UNFAVORABLE TO THE CHADIAN STY [...]
2008-08-04 14:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON UN EU SU LY KPKO CD
08NDJAMENA334LIBYAN AMBASSADOR BRIEFS ON TRIPOLI'S "TRILATERAL
[...] (C) Libyan Ambassador Emhemmed Shlback briefed me on Libya,s recent &Trilateral Initiative8 to bring peace between Chad and Sudan August 5. Shlback said that Qaddafi believed that the time was now ripe to try to bring the two feuding leaders back to the more productive relationship they once [...]
2008-08-06 10:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF UNAUS EU SU LY FR CD
08NDJAMENA336LIBYAN AMBASSADOR BRIEFS ON TRIPOLI?S
[...] (C) Libyan Ambassador Emhemmed Shlback briefed me on Libya?s recent ?Trilateral Initiative? to bring peace between Chad and Sudan August 5. Shlback said that Qaddafi believed that the time was now ripe to try to bring the two feuding leaders back to the more productive relationship they once [...]
2008-08-06 15:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF UN EU SU LY FR CD
08NDJAMENA374CHAD AND THE WORLD BANK AGREE TO TRY A RENEWED
[...] (SBU) THE VISIT TO CHAD AUGUST 24-25 OF WORLD BANK VP FOR AFRICA OBIAGELI ESEKWESILI APPEARS TO HAVE LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR A RECONCILIATION BETWEEN CHAD AND THE BANK, AFTER AN ESTRANGEMENT OF SOME SIX MONTHS, BUT IT WILL COST CHAD SOME USDOLS 60-70 MILLION IN EARLY DEBT REPAYMENT, WHICH WILL [...]
2008-08-28 15:43:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON IBRD ETRD EPET IMF PGOV CM CD
08NDJAMENA381CHAD CHRONICLE: AUGUST 2008
[...] INVESTIGATION INTO THE JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2008 EVENTS: PRESIDENT DEBY SAYS HE WILL "FOLLOW UP" RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE REPORT. THE COMMISSION INVESTIGATING THE EVENTS OF JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2008 SUBMITTED ITS REPORT TO PRESIDENT DEBY ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 5. IN RECEIVING THE REPORT, PRESIDENT D [...]
2008-09-02 17:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON EFIN IBRD PHUM UN LY CD
08NDJAMENA384LIBYAN AMBASSADOR RESPONDS TO USG OFFER TO BE
[...] (C) I met with Libyan Ambassador Shlback on Thursday, August 14. He said he wanted to respond to my request for Tripoli's thinking on how the United States might usefully support Libya's recent "Trilateral Initiative" to bring peace between Chad and Sudan. He said that he had spoken to Dr. A [...]
2008-09-03 13:17:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL LY SU FR EU IR IS SA ER CD
08NDJAMENA39CLAMPDOWN ON CHAD'S INDEPENDENT VOICES AS SUDAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Chad is ratchetting up hostility against Sudan and displaying less tolerance for criticism. Human rights activists have noted a deterioration in the overall human rights situation: targets of the clampdown include radio and print journalists, a human rights ac [...]
2008-01-18 14:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL CD SU
08NDJAMENA40 CHAD: UPDATE ON EUFOR/MINURCAT IN CHAD
[...] (SBU) Summary. Chadian Foreign Minister Allam-mi told diplomats January 16 that Chad welcomed EUFOR/MINURCAT for the development dividend that the force was expected to bring and stressed that the force had "no hidden agenda to destabilize a neighbor." Although Allam-mi assured diplomats that [...]
2008-01-18 14:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSCR CD CT SU PREF PREL
08NDJAMENA411CHAD CHRONICLE: SEPT 8-12, 2008
[...] FOLLOWING SIGNATURE ON AUGUST 18, 2008 OF A PROTOCOL ANNEXED TO THE SIRTE ACCORD, 22 OFFICERS FROM THE REBEL "RASSEMBLEMENT DES FORCES DE CHANGEMENT" (RFC) ARRIVED IN NDJAMENA TO BEGIN REINTEGRATION INTO GOVERNMENT SERVICE. THE DELEGATION WAS LED BY COLONEL ISAACK BACHAR TOGOU, RFC'S DEFENSE CO [...]
2008-09-15 09:44:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA414ABSENCE OF AMBASSADOR LOUIS J. NIGRO, JR.
[...] Ambassador Louis J. Nigro will be absent from post from September 15 to October 20 for Rest and Recreation Travel and AF COM Conference. Acting DCM Robert E. Gribbin will be Charge d'affaires, a.i. 2. ITINERARY IS AS FOLLOWS: SEPTEMBER 15: 11:15 PM DPT NDJAMENA VIA AF-881 SEPTEMB [...]
2008-09-15 16:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT
08NDJAMENA441CHAD CHRONICLE: SEPT 15-26, 2008
[...] THERE WAS MUCH PRESS DISCUSSSION DURING THE WEEK REGARDING REPLACEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN PEACEKEEPING FORCE BY AN EXPANDED UNITED NATIONS PRESENCE. DESPITE GIVING SPACE TO OXFAM CRITICISMS SAYING THAT NO IMPROVEMENT OF THE SECURITY SITUATION HAS BEEN OBSERVED ON THE GROUND AS WELL AS OXFAM'S ALLE [...]
2008-09-26 11:36:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA451CHAD CHRONICLE: SEPT 29 - OCT 3, 2008
[...] EDUCATION -------------- SCHOOLS RESUMED ON OCTOBER 01, 2008. HOWEVER, REGISTRATION IS VERY SLOW AND SOME CLASSROOMS ARE NOT READY FOR STUDENTS. REPORTEDLY MANY PARENTS FIND IT DIFFICULT TO PAY SCHOOL FEES FOR CHILDREN IN ADDITION TO BUYING UNIFORMS AND SCHOOL MATERIALS. A GROUP OF UNIV [...]
2008-10-03 09:33:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA466CHAD CHRONICLE: Oct 6-10
[...] ECONOMY ------------------------------------- TO CELEBRATE THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE CHAD/CAMEROON OIL PIPELINE, THE CHADIAN GOVERNMENT ORGANIZED A THREE DAY CONFERENCE DUBBED "CHAD INTERNATIONAL OIL, MINING AND ENERGY"(CIOME 2008) WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF ATTRACTING INVESTOR [...]
2008-10-10 11:46:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA481CHAD CHRONICLE: Oct 13-17
[...] MR. ALAIN LE ROY, UN DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR PEACKEEPING OPRTATIONS, MET WITH PRESIDENT DEBY ON OCTOBER 14. SPEAKING TO THE PRESS AFTER THE MEETING, MR. LE ROY DECLARED THAT THE AIM OF HIS VISIT WAS TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF THE MINURCAT, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO TAKE OVER FROM EUFOR ON MARCH [...]
2008-10-17 10:30:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA516CHAD CHRONICLE: NOV 3-7
[...] US ELECTION 2008 --------------------------------------------- -------- --- "THE WHITE HOUSE PAINTED BLACK" SAID L'OBSERVATEUR NEWSPAPER ABOUT THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA. SEVERAL ARTICLES FOCUSED ON HOW OBAMA WON THE ELECTION AND THE AMERICAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM. THE HEADLINE PIECE CONCLUDE [...]
2008-11-07 11:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA517CHADIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES COMPLAIN GOC NOT
[...] (SBU) The main association of Chadian opposition parties, the CPDC, complained to the Ambassador that the GoC is not implementing the August 13 Accord (the electoral reform agreement signed in August 2007) in good faith, and that therefore credible elections could not be held in 2009. They m [...]
2008-11-07 11:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF EU FR AU UN CD
08NDJAMENA518FRENCH SUPPORT COORDINATION ON UN FOLLOW-ON
[...] (SBU) EMBASSY SUPPORTS THE DEPARTMENT'S EFFORTS TO COORDINATE WITH THE FRENCH ON CHAD POLICY IN GENERAL AND ON PKO ISSUES IN PARTICULAR. 2. (SBU) FROM OUR PERCH HERE, THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS KEY OBJECTIVES OF SUCH COORDINATION REGARDING THE UN FOLLOW-ON FORCE (MINURCAT II) [...]
2008-11-10 10:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PKO PREF PREL FR CD
08NDJAMENA520CHAD - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MAURITANIAN COUP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-12 11:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL USAU CD
08NDJAMENA526CHAD CHRONICLE: Nov 10-14
[...] CHAD-SUDAN RELATIONS AND REGIONAL COOPERATION ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- ----- ---CHAD AND SUDAN EXCHANGED AMBASSADORS DURING THE WEEK. 2008. CHADIAN AMBASSADOR TO SUDAN, BAHARADINE HAROUN, WENT TO KHARTOUM ON A LIBYAN FLIGHT AND SUD [...]
2008-11-14 11:16:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF ECON PHUM UN LY CT CD
08NDJAMENA527MINURCAT-TRAINED CHADIAN POLICE AND GENDARMES
[...] USAID OFDA Field Officer reported from Eastern Chad on the status of the deployment of the DIS (Integrated Security Detachments),the Chadian police and gendarmes trained by MINURCAT to provide security inside the refugee camps in Eastern Chad, to the field. 2. As of November 7, some 430 of [...]
2008-11-14 11:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF PHUM MARR KPKO UN CD
08NDJAMENA530CHAD OPPOSITION, PESSIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTION
[...] (C) The leaders of the main opposition parties told AMB November 12 that they are increasingly pessimistic that legislative and communal elections will be held in 2009, primarily because, absent external pressure, they say that President Deby has no real interest in electoral reform or the ho [...]
2008-11-17 13:36:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF UN EU SU CD
08NDJAMENA533POTENTIAL VISIT OF MRS. CINDY MCCAIN TO CHAD
[...] (SBU) Embassy N,Djamena has learned from AF/C that Mrs. Cindy McCain intends to visit Chad December 1-4, 2008 on a private, humanitarian mission. We would like some clarification so that we may be as supportive of this visit as possible. Below are questions to which we request answers. (a [...]
2008-11-17 14:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PREF PHUM ASEC AMGT AFIN UN CD
08NDJAMENA534IMF DELEGATION IN NDJAMENA TO PURSUE THE FUND'S
[...] (SBU) The head of the current visiting IMF delegation told the Ambassador Nov 12 that the visit was aimed at helping Chad get to the budgetary performance point at which the IMF could hope to put a Staff-Monitored Program in place. The IMF wanted to help Chad's public finance team craft a re [...]
2008-11-17 15:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN IMF PGOV PREL US IBRD MASS CD
08NDJAMENA547IMF HOLDS OUT HOPE FOR CHAD, BUT INSISTS ON FISCAL
[...] (SBU) The November 18 debrief to the diplomatic community by the visiting IMF delegation tracked what delegation head Sukhwinder Singh had told Ambassador earlier (Ref A). The IMF is trying to persuade the GoC to prepare and live within budgets that are sustainable without oil revenue, in m [...]
2008-11-20 15:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN IMF PGOV PREL US IBRD MASS CD
08NDJAMENA567CHAD - THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT
[...] This message responds to Ref A request for an update on measures to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and trafficking in persons (TIP) involving UN peacekeeping personnel in Chad. 2. MINURCAT, the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad, now has 863 personnel, of whic [...]
2008-12-03 16:38:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO PREL PHUM UN CD CT
08NDJAMENA57CHAD: NO STRONG VIEWS ON LIBYAN TSCTP MEMBERSHIP
[...] (U) DCM raised the question of Libyan membership in the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) December 28 with Youssef Saleh Abbas, the President's International Relations Advisor. Abbas said that he didn't see any problems in principle, and suggested that this was an item which t [...]
2008-01-29 07:05:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR PINS PREL PTER CD
08NDJAMENA571CHAD AMB UPBEAT ON REBEL THREAT AND CHAD-SUDAN
[...] (C) Chad Ambassador to the U.S. Adam Bachir told Ambassador and DCM December 1 that he would carry a letter from President Deby to President-Elect Obama's Chicago Transition Office proposing a meeting in DC between the two Presidents after January 20, 2009, to discuss regional security issues. [...]
2008-12-04 15:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR LY SU PREF CD
08NDJAMENA573CHAD - TWO KEY ELECTION-RELATED LAWS PASSED BY
[...] (SBU) The process leading up to future elections is proceeding in a typically desultory, Chadian fashion, but it is indeed proceeding. Only one of the seven draft laws sent by the Comite de Suivi to the Government is still stuck in the GOC apparatus, and it is one that the opposition does not [...]
2008-12-11 07:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR CD
08NDJAMENA582JEM "FOREIGN SECRETARY" COMMENTS ON ACTIVITIES IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 14, the Justice and Equality Movement's "Foreign Secretary" Bushara Suliman Nour, based in Ndjamena, labeled recent JEM military movements in Darfur as "routine" and "strictly within our areas," but later asserted that JEM could easily attack and control all three st [...]
2008-12-16 12:04:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM MARR KPKO PINR PGOV AU UN SU
08NDJAMENA583DEBY'S TONE MORE CONCILIATORY TOWARD SUDAN AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby's December 10th speech marking Freedom and Democracy Day contained a more conciliatory tone toward the Government of Sudan and Chadian rebels than previously, even as he presided over a massive demonstration of the GOC's ongoing military rearmament campaign. De [...]
2008-12-16 15:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM MARR PINR EAID UN SU CD
08NDJAMENA62FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON CHAD-SUDAN, POWS, CHILD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Ambassador Foucher told Ambassador January 28 that France regretted that President Deby did not take stronger action or speak out more clearly against mistreatment of POWs and recruitment of child soldiers. He expressed the strong French view that Sudan was far more to bl [...]
2008-01-29 15:55:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SU CD UNSC
08NDJAMENA81JEM REBELS: DEBY'S SAVIOUR AND BUDDING NATIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of the Sudanese rebel group JEM told N'Djamena Emboffs on March 7 that JEM was well on the way to becoming an inclusive Sudanese national movement. They acknowledged that JEM forces had come to the aid of President Deby during the February 2-3 rebel attacks on N'D [...]
2008-03-07 16:48:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF SU CD
08NDJAMENA83GOC ASKS FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE IN DEVELOPMENT FOR EASTERN
[...] (U) AMBASSADOR CALLED MARCH 4 ON YOUSSOUF SALEH ABBAS, PRESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND RECENTLY APPOINTED SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR MINURCAT AND EUFOR IN CHAD, AND AS SUCH, CHIEF OF A NEW GOC AGENCY, THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL FORCES IN CHAD (CON [...]
2008-03-10 13:51:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF EAID CD EU
08NDJAMENA95CHAD: FISCAL TRANSPARENCY REPORT
[...] Summary: Despite efforts by the World Bank and other donors to improve accountability and transparency in Chad's budget, the country's fiscal transparency has deteriorated since the last fiscal transparency report in 2003. End summary. 2. Chad's national budget is available in print but th [...]
2008-03-17 14:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID PGOV CD
08NEWDELHI103DELHI DIARY, JAN 7-11
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for January 7-11, 2007, that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India, Israeli Kick Off 2008 with High-Level Defense Talks -- India Remains Israel's Largest Defense Customer -- National Defense [...]
2008-01-11 13:10:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL PTER SCUL SNAR SOCI
08NEWDELHI1224 UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY ENGAGES INDIA'S SPECIAL ENVOY
[...] SUMMARY: In a bilateral meeting on the margins of the Global Issues Forum held April 24, 2008 in New Delhi, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky led a delegation consisting of OES Assistant Secretary Claudia McMurray and Dr. Robert Dixon, NSC-CEQ Senior Coordinato [...]
2008-05-05 12:02:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI1441GOI TO SEND MINISTER, NOT MONEY, TO PARIS
[...] (C/REL ACGU) SUMMARY: MEA Deputy Secretary (Afghanistan) Piyush Srivastava disclosed to Poloffs May 28 that the GOI will likely send a Minister level GOI representative to the June 12 International Conference on Afghanistan in Paris, corroborating what the Australian PolOff told Post at a May [...]
2008-05-28 12:44:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID EFIN IN AF
08NEWDELHI1578GOI TO SEND MINISTER SHARMA TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-09 11:51:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM EAID EFIN IN AF
08NEWDELHI2606INDIA SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) Madame Secretary, we welcome your upcoming visit and offer this overview of the bilateral relationship. Coming only hours after hoped-for congressional approval of the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement, your visit gives us a chance to mark this milestone in the relationship while pus [...]
2008-09-30 07:23:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP PARM ECON PGOV PTER EAID IN
08NEWDELHI338SARKOZY'S VISIT TO INDIA LONG ON DRAMA, SHORT ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Sarkozy made a two-day stop in India amid a whirlwind of media speculation regarding whether his famous girlfriend, supermodel Carla Bruni, would accompany him. Sarkozy's visit stimulated both governments to officially confirm that they have finalized their civil nuc [...]
2008-02-01 12:04:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS KNNP KOMC KUNR FR IN
08NEWDELHI343DELHI DIARY, JAN 21-28
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for January 21-28, 2008 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- New HP Government Gets Moving -- Prime Minister Singh to Visit Indo-Chinese Border Areas -- French President's Visit Raises Turban Is [...]
2008-02-01 13:09:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PBTS SOCI KWMN CH IN FR
08NEWDELHI433GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LAUNCHES THE NANOTECHNOLOGY MISSION IN
[...] (U) Summary: The Government of India (GOI) in its recent National Development Council (NDC) meeting has approved a Science and Technology (S&T) budget of approximately USD 18.7 billion in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007-2012). This is a three-fold increase over its Tenth Plan allocation of [...]
2008-02-11 05:09:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV TSPL SENV TBIO TRGY TNGD
08NEWDELHI467ISRAELI DCM BRIEFS DCM ON POSITIVE TREND IN
[...] (C) Summary. Israeli DCM Belotsercovsky told DCM recently that he was concerned that a renewal in criticisms from the Left and India's Muslim community could cause the Indian government to pull back from the rapid, positive trend in India-Israel relations. He refused to comment on allegations [...]
2008-02-13 09:32:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR TSPA MOPS IN
08NEWDELHI832NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 17-20, 2008. INDIA PLANS THIRD YEAR OF GRAIN PURCHASES ------------------ 2. (U) The growing demand for wheat in India has contributed to a global price increase of the crop, which has more th [...]
2008-03-20 11:42:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV IN
08NEWDELHI98950-50 CHANCE AT BEST FOR NUCLEAR DEAL AFTER MAY 9,
[...] (C) Summary: In light of the continuing political debate in Delhi, Indian observers have counseled that the central government will wait at least until Parliament approves the budget on May 9, after which the Congress Party may decide to move forward with the nuclear deal by submitting the saf [...]
2008-04-04 09:20:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
08NIAMEY1066NIGER: CHINESE GOV'T BRINGS DREAM TO BUILD AN OIL REFINERY
[...] Summary. The Government of Niger's (GON) dream to build an oil refinery moved a step closer to becoming reality at an elaborate first-stone laying ceremony on October 27, 2008. The GON (all Cabinet Ministers, many National Assembly Members),traditional chiefs, political party heads, diploma [...]
2008-11-03 10:59:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDEPET EINV ECON SOCI PGOV SENV NG
08NIAMEY1116NIGER: U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE (USIP) NEGOTIATION TRAINING
[...] Summary. Government of Niger (GON) High Commissioner for the Restoration of Peace (HCRP) Mohamed Anacko made a request in June 2008 (reftel) to former U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs' Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Moss for assistance in securing negotiation and conflict r [...]
2008-11-25 10:07:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SOCI PHUM SCUL EAID NG
08NIAMEY1133NIGER: NOVEMBER 25-27, 2008 REGIONAL SEMINAR ON TERRORISM
[...] Summary. The Government of Niger (GON),in cooperation with the Government of France (GOF),hosted in Niamey a regional seminar on terrorism and trafficking from November 25-27, 2008. The GON Minister of Justice (MOJ) and French Ambassador delivered opening and closing remarks at the seminar, [...]
2008-12-03 11:28:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPTER SMIG SNAR PHUM ASEC MCAP KTFN NG XY
08NIAMEY1160NIAMEY EAC - UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF UN
[...] (S) The EAC discussed the unexplained disappearance of UN Special Envoy Robert Fowler, Special Assistant Louis Guay, and their unidentified local driver. Fowler and Guay are both Canadian nationals. The EAC met twice on December 15 to discuss this; first, as an initial report, and second, t [...]
2008-12-15 15:04:00Embassy NiameySECRETASEC CASC PGOV PREL NG
08NIAMEY1166NIGER: DETAILS AND UPDATE ON MISSING UNITED
[...] (S/NF) Summary. The unexplained disappearances of United Nations Special Envoy (SE) Robert Fowler, Special Assistant Louis Guay and their unidentified driver remains a mystery. The Government of Niger (GON) initial reaction generally has been one of anger, placing blame on the SE for allegedl [...]
2008-12-16 15:20:00Embassy NiameySECRET//NOFORNASEC CASC PGOV PREL UN NG
08NIAMEY1171NIGER: REBEL FACTION RESIGNATIONS
[...] (SBU) Recent resignations of seven leaders within the predominantly Tuareg rebel movement Front des Forces de Redressement (FFR) suggest a schism within the FFR element that broke off from the Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) in May 2008 (reftel). The resignations follow two confl [...]
2008-12-19 10:31:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR PREL MOPS NG
08NIAMEY1173NIGER: DECEMBER 18 REPUBLIC OF NIGER (RON) JUBILEE
[...] Summary. The RON celebrated its 50th anniversary with week-long (December 14-20) festivities in the regions of Tillabery and Niamey. There were cultural/sports events, a parade (including a display of security/military hardware),a banquet hosted by Government of Niger (GON) President Tandja a [...]
2008-12-23 10:45:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MCAP SCUL SOCI NG
08NIAMEY1181 GOVT OF NIGER FY09 BUDGET INCREASES 28 PERCENT
[...] Summary: On Friday, November 14, 2008, the National Assembly approved the Government of Niger's proposed budget of USD 1.532 billion for 2009, representing an increase of 28.41 percent over the 2008 budget and including significant additional spending for capital projects. The 2009 budget in [...]
2008-12-29 13:55:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV EFIN EINV ETRD EAID NG
08NIAMEY1183(SBU) NIGER: GOVERNMENT OF CANADA SENDS SPECIAL
[...] (S) Summary. The Government of Canada (GOC) dispatched its Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) for La Francophonie Jacques Bilodeau to the Republic of Niger (RON) for two days of consultations with Government of Niger (GON) officials on the disappearances of United Nations Special Envoy (SE) Robert Fowle [...]
2008-12-30 13:58:00Embassy NiameySECRETASEC CASC PGOV PREL NG CA XY
08NIAMEY148GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY PLANS TO OPEN MISSION IN
[...] Former Turkish Ambassador to Sudan and Chad, Dr. Ali Engin Oba, paid a courtesy call on me during his 48-hour stop in Niger. Oba informed me that the Goverment of Turkey (GOT) assigned him special envoy status to explore the possibilities of opening more embassies in Sub-Saharan Africa. He s [...]
2008-02-05 17:12:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD EINV NG TU
08NIAMEY310NIGER: OPTIMISM ABOUT THE PROSPECT FOR PEACE
[...] (C) Summary. On March 12, Ambassador Allen met with the Government of Niger (GON) High Commissioner for the Restoration of Peace, Mohamed Anacko, to discuss the Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) release of 25 hostages (ref A) and whether it was an opening for the GON to negotiate [...]
2008-03-12 15:49:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPINS MOPS ASEC PGOV NG
08NIAMEY433NIGER: HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR RECONCILIATION ON THE
[...] (C) Summary: The GON official responsible for implementing the 1995 peace accord is disappointed that there had not been any GON follow-up to the MNJ's release of hostages. He thought the President's April 24 speech marking the end of the 1990s rebellion and the Communication Minister's state [...]
2008-04-17 11:40:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF NG
08NIAMEY470ADDENDUM: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL
[...] (U) Following up on reftel report on the impact of rising food prices on Niger, and after consultation with local WFP and FEWSNET personnel, Embassy estimates that Niger will need approximately 120,000 mt of food to tide the country over until next fall's harvest. The 120,000 mt should be a c [...]
2008-05-05 13:49:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID PGOV NG
08NIAMEY48NIGER: U.S. AMBASSADOR JANUARY 10 MEETING WITH GON
[...] (C) Summary. I met with Government of Niger (GON) Foreign Minister (FM) Mindaoudou on Thursday, January 10, 2008, and discussed the status of Niger,s MCC Threshold Program, security (specifically land mine incidents),human rights-related matters(arrested journalists and military,s killing of [...]
2008-01-14 16:09:00Embassy NiameySECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR PHUM ASEC PGOV NG
08NIAMEY481GOVERNMENT OF NIGER (GON) PRESIDENT TANDJA HOSTS THE NIGER
[...] Summary. On April 30, 2008, GON President Mamadou Tandja hosted the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) Eighth Heads of State and Government (HOSG) Summit (much of it held behind closed doors) in Niamey. Three presidents (Benin, Chad and Mali),a prime minister (Burkina Faso),senior government offici [...]
2008-05-07 14:19:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL EAID EINV SENV EAGR TPHY NG XY
08NIAMEY533NIGER: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS RESPONSE TO
[...] (U) Following is an unofficial English translation of the Government of Niger (GON) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Note Number 3413 (dated 19 May 2008),in response to U.S. Embassy Niamey Diplomatic Note Number 36, related to allegations of human rights abuses conducted by Nigerien mil [...]
2008-05-20 13:52:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM MARR PGOV NG
08NIAMEY546NIGER: Request for Intervention to Gain the Liberation of
[...] Government of Niger National Commission of Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties (CNDHLF) President, Lompo Garba, sent a letter (dated May 21, 2008) to U.S. Embassy Niamey requesting the Ambassador's intervention to gain the liberation of the CNDHLF Commissioner and other persons in the custod [...]
2008-05-22 14:23:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PINS PGOV SOCI NG
08NIAMEY559NIGER: REBELS RELEASE VICE PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL
[...] On Saturday, May 24, 2008, Mouvement des Nigerien Pour la Justice (MNJ) rebels released CNDHLF Vice President Ahamadou Ahalawey and his newphew, taken hostage as reported in reftel, to the custody of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC delivered Ahalawey and his neph [...]
2008-05-27 14:49:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PINS PGOV SOCI NG
08NIAMEY605(C) NIGER: TESTY FOREIGN MINISTER (FM) MEETS WITH
[...] (U) Summary. Responding to a diplomatic corps request of several weeks ago for an update on the security situation in the north, the status of 2009 election preparations and a review of food security issues, Government of Niger (GON) FM Aichatou Mindaoudou convoked the resident ambassadors and [...]
2008-06-13 09:49:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAGR EAID NG
08NIAMEY608NIGER: AF DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MOSS VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary. ------------------------- On June 1, 2008, Department of State Bureau for African Affairs (AF) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Todd Moss met with several Government of Niger (GON) officials (including President Mamadou Tandja) and a human rights organization, participated in [...]
2008-06-16 15:01:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR EAGR EAID NG
08NIAMEY619UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN AIR SERVICE (UNHAS)
[...] Summary. The UNHAS launched an inaugural flight in Niger on June 12, 2008, with a short trip from Niamey to Agadez to Niamey. The UNHAS will facilitate travel to remote locations in country as well as offer limited service from Niger to other countries in west and central Africa. This most w [...]
2008-06-23 14:13:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDEAID CASC AEMR AMED PREL ASEC NG CD CM CT
08NIAMEY631NIGER: INCINERATION OF SEIZED NARCOTICS AT
[...] On June 26, 2008, to commemorate the 21st International Day in the Fight against Narcotics Abuse and Trafficking, Government of Niger (GON) Minister of Justice Dagra Mamadou presided over a ceremony to incinerate narcotics seized in Niger over the period November 2006 - October 2007. Several [...]
2008-06-26 12:39:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV SOCI NG
08NIAMEY689NIGER: UNITED NATIONS (UN) SECRETARY GENERAL
[...] Summary. UN Secretary General SA on Conflict Prevention, Jan Egeland, made a June 5-6 visit to Niger to investigate the nexus between climate change issues and conflict. UN Development Program (UNDP) Senior Representative Khardiata Lo N'Diaye (concurrently the senior UN system official in Nige [...]
2008-07-10 09:39:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EFIS SOCI EAID PREF NG UN
08NIAMEY739NIGER: GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS MSF-FRANCE OPERATIONS
[...] (U) The Nigerien Interior Ministry in a decree dated July 18 suspended the operations of Medecins Sans Frontieres-France (MSF-F) in Niger. 2. (SBU) In a July 29 meeting with the DCM, the head of the French chapter of MSF in Niger, Emmanuel Lavieuville, explained that, contrary to press rep [...]
2008-07-29 10:45:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM SOCI FR NG
08NIAMEY800NIGER: MNJ Rebel Leader Reported to Have Announced
[...] Summary. On August 18, a late evening announcement on Tele-Sahel public television reported Mouvement Nigerien pour la Justice (MNJ) leader Agali Alambo had decided to have MNJ rebels lay down their arms. Alambo reportedly arrived at the decision at a meeting in Libya with "Great Sahara" comm [...]
2008-08-19 14:29:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS SOCI PGOV CASC ASEC NG LY
08NIAMEY809NIGER: RADIO AND TV DOUNIA SUSPENDED FOR ONE
[...] High Council for Communication (CSC) Director Daouda Diallo notified Radio and TV Dounia that its operation has been suspended for one month. The official reason given for RTV Dounia's suspension was "failure to meet the specifications for which it is authorized." CSC is the Government of Ni [...]
2008-08-20 05:29:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KPAO NG
08NIAMEY815NIGER: MNJ LEADERSHIP CONTRADICTS GON
[...] (C) Summary. Following August 18 media reports that Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) leader Aghali Alambo had agreed to Libyan leader Mouamar Khaddafi's call for rebels to lay down their arms to faciliate planning for peace talks, the MNJ leadership alleged that Government of Ni [...]
2008-08-21 14:28:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS PREL CASC NG LY ML
08NIAMEY821NIGER: ACCIDENTAL LANDMINE EXPLOSION AT "LAYING
[...] (U) Summary. On the morning of Sunday, August 24, Government of Niger (GON) authorities and Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Sahara (FARS) rebels (of Toubou ethnicity) held a ceremony in which FARS rebels turned over hundreds of weapons (landmines, guns, grenades, etc.). Regrettably, the l [...]
2008-08-25 13:36:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALASEC CASC PGOV MOPS PREL NG
08NIAMEY93GON releases jailed French Journalists
[...] On January 18, the GON released two French journalists from pre-trial detention on bail of 10 million FCFA each (exchange rate currently 448 FCFA = 1$US). Their bond was paid that same day and the two flew to Paris later that evening. 2. Journalists Thomas Dandois and Pierre Creisson of Eur [...]
2008-01-23 15:05:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG
08NIAMEY945 HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE FOR UNGFA - NIGER
[...] The Nigerien attendees to the 63rd UN General Assembly will be as listed below. (Note: no spouses are anticipated to attend, and travel information is not available at this time. All participants speak French. End Note.): A. Attendance of Head of State: No. B. Attendance of Hea [...]
2008-09-05 14:20:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP OTRA KSEP UNGA NG
08NIAMEY960 Transport Minister Replaced; ANDP Technocrat Brought Back
[...] (SBU) On September 14, President Tandja, acting on the recommendation of PM Oumarou, dismissed Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Kindo Hamani. Reasons cited on the street for his dismissal include difficulties encountered by importers and transport firms in moving goods from the Port of [...]
2008-09-15 14:24:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELTN EAIR PINR NG
08NICOSIA213CYPRUS LIKELY TO ATTEND GI EXERCISE PLANNING GROUP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-31 11:36:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER CY
08NICOSIA44CYPRUS SUPPORTS DEPLOYMENT OF ESDP MISSION TO CHAD
[...] (C) The Embassy January 17 delivered Reftel non-paper to Haris Christodoulidou, the Cypriot Foreign Ministry's acting head of ESDP/CFSP Affairs. In delivering the demarche, PolChief focused on the urgency of the European Union putting "boots on the ground" soonest in Chad and the Central Rep [...]
2008-01-18 13:14:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN CD CY TU
08NICOSIA749CYPRUS: SHIPPING INDUSTRY CALM AMID GLOBAL TURMOIL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Shipping executives in Cyprus tell us that their industry continues to flourish despite the global economic turmoil and volatility in energy prices. Their biggest problems are the Turkish embargo on Cypriot-flagged ships, the dispute with EU authorities over Cyprus' tonnage tax [...]
2008-09-18 12:11:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT CY
08NICOSIA910CYPRUS: ROC CONDEMNS TURKISH NAVY HARASSMENT IN
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request -- please see Paragraph 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Cypriot Foreign Ministry on November 14 summoned the Ambassador to protest Turkey's alleged same-day harassment of two RoC-contracted vessels conducting seismic exploration in waters Cyprus considers [...]
2008-11-18 14:16:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MARR ECON EPET CY TU
08NOUAKCHOTT252MAURITANIAN GOVERNMENT CABINET RESHUFFLE -- RETURN
[...] (C) One year into his administration, President Abdallahi is changing his team. The change was long anticipated -- a change from a government that reflected the necessary political compromises of the immediate post-election to a government that takes greater account of political, ethnic and [...]
2008-05-28 13:57:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KMCA MR
08NOUAKCHOTT439SITREP 10 - VISIT OF U.S. ENVOYS TO MAURITANIA
[...] (C) General Aziz, accompanied by his Director of Cabinet, Cheyakh Ould Ely, and Presidential Diplomatic and Security Advisor, Ould Michel, received visiting AF DAS Todd Moss and DoD Principal Director for African Affairs, Michael Dumont as well as Ambassador and DATT. DAS Moss underscored that [...]
2008-08-17 16:41:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL MR
08NOUAKCHOTT514FRENCH AND ALGERIAN TAKES ON AU COMMISSIONER
[...] (C) The African Union's Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra made his third visit to Nouakchott September 14 and 15. Following his meeting with representatives of the international community (Ref A),Lamamra met with General Aziz. Ambassador met on September 16 with French Ambass [...]
2008-09-17 13:09:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MR
08NOUAKCHOTT582MORE POLITICAL MOMENTUM
[...] (C) Summary: The French share Mission view that slow movement towards a political resolution is underway. General Aziz, while ever stubborn on key points, has shown most flexibility to date in meeting with the French Ambassador. The EU Article 96 process is key leverage while the Mauritania [...]
2008-10-09 19:41:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT598PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FORMALLY
[...] (SBU) Action Request: See paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) The President of the National Assembly, Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, has sent all diplomatic and international organization missions a diplomatic note outlining an exit strategy he hopes "can serve as a basis for responsible discussion acceptabl [...]
2008-10-19 12:59:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT603AZIZ LETS NGO CONTACT GROUP MEETS WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: The NGO "Contact Group" met with General Aziz on October 19 and received permission to meet with President Abdallahi that same evening. The Contact Group, seeking to facilitate a political resolution to the crisis, saw Aziz as anxious to find an exit. They found President Abda [...]
2008-10-20 17:42:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT616REMINISCING WITH ABDALLAHI'S MINISTERS
[...] (C) Summary: Charge met with two Abdallahi Ministers, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock through all three Addallahi governments Correa Issagha and Minister of Economy and Finance during the first two governments Abderrahmane Ould Hama Vezzaz, for their political assessment. Both were co [...]
2008-10-22 18:55:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT620REMINISCING WITH ABDALLAHI'S MINISTERS
[...] (C) Summary: Charge met with two Abdallahi Ministers, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock through all three Addallahi governments Correa Issagha and Minister of Economy and Finance during the first two governments Abderrahmane Ould Hama Vezzaz, for their political assessment. Both were co [...]
2008-10-22 18:55:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT624FOLLOW-UP MEDIA REVIEW: 3 MONTHS POST-COUP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Three months into what initially appeared a quickly consummated coup, Mauritanian media leaders see the country either no closer to finding a solution to the August 6th coup d'etat or on the brink of another one, depending upon who you talk to. The PAO sat down with media who in [...]
2008-10-23 13:36:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MR
08NOUAKCHOTT627DIPLOMATIC DISCORD ON NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) Summary: The first "UNDP Group" meeting following the failure of the October 20 Paris talks highlighted substantial difference between Western missions on the way forward -- centered primarily on the definition of what a "return to constitutional order" means in practical terms. European [...]
2008-10-26 19:30:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU MR
08NOUAKCHOTT640"WE NEVER TALK ANYMORE" MAURITANIA JUNTA WANTS TO
[...] (C) The USUN Demarche: The recent Mauritanian demarche on US PermRep Ambassador Khalilzad reflects the junta's frustration that the U.S., while maintaining an active dialogue on security matters, has not engaged in direct political talks with the regime as have some of our European partners. [...]
2008-11-04 16:37:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT659MEETING WITH THE REGIME'S "FOREIGN MINISTER"
[...] (C) Summary: Regime "Foreign Minister" Ould Mohamedou claims the High State Council wants to find a solution that will restore constitutionality and maintain stability. The Regime will "put something concrete on the table" at the November 10 African Union meeting in Addis Ababa. The regime [...]
2008-11-09 18:59:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT693MAURITANIA AIRWAYS: IF IT CAN SUCCEED IN
[...] (C) Summary: Mauritania Airways recently celebrated its first anniversary, marking the end of a difficult year for the company. Its first year of operations has been extremely difficult and the company is struggling to stay afloat. It continues to be hampered by the reputation of the now defu [...]
2008-11-24 09:15:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALECON EAIR EINV ELTN PGOV PREL MR
08NOUAKCHOTT696PRESIDENT BQALAHI ADDRESSES THE NATION FOO
[...] (SBU) On November 21, President Abdallahi delivered his first address to the nation since the August 6 coup. Because the official state-run news outlets are tightly controlled by the military junta, the address was broadcast on the pan-Arab Al Arabiyasatellite channel which reaches most of M [...]
2008-11-24 13:26:00Embassy NouakchottUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPAO MR
08NOUAKCHOTT723MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI -- A VERY LONG
[...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi has restated his absolute rejection of negotiations with the Mauritanian military but expressed a realistic view of American capacity to bring others around to the U.S. policy approach -- a "standard" for others to compare themselves to. Abdallahi also recog [...]
2008-12-10 19:16:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
08NOUAKCHOTT745FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON CURRENT STATE OF PLAY
[...] (C) Summary: The French Ambassador sees no movement towards a resolution with General Aziz proceeding with a transparently manipulated "democratic transition" and President Abdallahi offering no political alternative. With no prospects for an early resolution, the French are re-engaging on [...]
2008-12-18 13:24:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR MR
08OSLO57NOT YOUR FATHER'S NORWAY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-31 13:23:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR NO
08OTTAWA1115RESPONSES TO CANADA'S COMPETITION POLICY REVIEW
[...] (U) Summary: On June 26, the government-appointed Competition Policy Review Panel released its final report entitled &Compete to Win.8 The Panel was created in July of 2007 and tasked with reviewing Canada's competition and foreign investment policies in order to issue recommendations to the [...]
2008-08-20 20:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD CA
08OTTAWA1232CANADA: NO NEW PLEDGES AT AD HOC LIAISON COMMITTEE
[...] (sbu) Canada plans no new pledges at the September 22 Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting in New York, according to Louise Corbin, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Israel, West Bank, and Gaza. Corbin told Econcouns that Canada had pledged C [...]
2008-09-17 20:21:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EAID IS KPAL PGOV PREL WBG
08OTTAWA1552US-EU-CANADA TRILATERAL MEETINGS ON IRAN AND US-EU
[...] (C) Summary: On December 8, the United States, European Union, and Canada held their regularly scheduled trilateral discussion on Iran at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa. Later in the day, U.S. and EU representatives met at the French Emba [...]
2008-12-12 21:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN UN XG XF IR CA
08OTTAWA1578CANADA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) During 2008 Canada secured its first convictions under the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act. In September, a Toronto court convicted a 20-year-old man, whose identity is protected by the Criminal Youth Justice Act, for conspiring in a group plot to bomb several Canadian targets, including Parliamen [...]
2008-12-22 21:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL ASEC CA
08OTTAWA1579CANADA EAGER TO PARTICIPATE IN PSI MEETINGS IN
[...] (SBU) Canada is eager to participate in the Proliferation Security Initiative Operational Experts Group and outreach meetings in May in Miami, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade non-proliferation senior policy advisor David MacDuff. MacDuff added that Canada is [...]
2008-12-22 21:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNP MNUC PARM CA
08OTTAWA378CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES ON NAFTA: KEEP, KILL OR FIX?
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-14 15:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EIND EINV PREL CA
08OTTAWA536DESPITE CONTROVERSY, USEFUL FM VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Apart from unfortunate remarks to the media by FM Bernier suggesting replacement of Kandahar's governor -- which Bernier quickly retracted -- his visit to Afghanistan along with his French counterpart was useful, with a special focus on policing and health. Canada's next st [...]
2008-04-17 21:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID MOPS AF CA
08OTTAWA572CANADA ATTENDANCE AT PARIS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
[...] (sbu) Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier will likely lead Canada's delegation to the June International Support Conference on Afghanistan in Paris, according to Richard Arbiter, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Acting Director for Policy and Advocacy on the Afghanistan [...]
2008-04-24 17:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF CA EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL
08OTTAWA626REGIONAL COMMAND - SOUTH MEETING, APRIL 28, OTTAWA
[...] (U) Summary: On April 28 in Ottawa, Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) hosted a DAS-level officials' meeting for countries contributing to NATO-ISAF Regional Command - South (RC-S). NATO and United Nations Peace Keeping Operations (UNPKO) representatives als [...]
2008-05-07 15:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA627U.S.-AUSTRALIA BILATERAL ON MARGINS OF RC-SOUTH
[...] (C) Summary: At their April 27 meeting in Ottawa, the U.S. and Australian delegations agreed the RC-South Plan should emphasize a counterinsurgency approach and retain its counternarcotics elements. The U.S. delegation agreed to include language in the Plan on a long-term approach and period [...]
2008-05-07 16:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF AS CA
08OTTAWA638CANADA AND PARIS SUPPORT CONFERENCE FOR AGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 17:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF CA EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL
08OTTAWA651U.S.- CANADA BILATERAL AT REGIONAL COMMAND - SOUTH
[...] (C) Summary: On the margins of the Regional Command-South meeting (reftel),Canadian representatives provided an overview of their security, reconstruction, and rule of law efforts in Kandahar Province. The Canadians emphasized the need for close U.S.-Canada cooperation in the transition to a [...]
2008-05-13 15:07:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA703PCO INVESTIGATION ON "NAFTAGATE" FAILS TO SOLVE
[...] (SBU) Following a two month investigation, the Privy Council Office released a May 22 report on "NAFTAGATE" related to alleged leaks by either or both Chief of Staff the Prime Minister Ian Brodie and Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson regarding alleged comments from Democratic U.S. Presid [...]
2008-05-23 20:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ETRD CA
08OTTAWA755G-8 COMMITMENT AND DARFUR KEEPS CANADA FOCUSED ON
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Harper has made Latin America, U.S. relations, Afghanistan, and major emerging markets Canada's prime foreign policy themes, leading to concern that Africa would "fall off the map." Africa nonetheless has maintained its spot on Canada's radar screen, in large meas [...]
2008-06-06 19:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM EAID XA SU CA CH
08OTTAWA781CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR THE BERLIN CONFERENCE
[...] (C) According to Director General for the Middle East and North Asia Gordon E. Venner of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs (and Conservative Member of Parliament) Deepak Obhrai will lead Canada's delegation to the Berlin Co [...]
2008-06-10 16:53:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS CA
08OTTAWA790CANADA FURTHER INCREASES AFGHANISTAN AID, WITH NEW
[...] (C) Summary: The Canadian government on June 10 announced an increase of C$600 million in its assistance package to Afghanistan, taking the total from C$1.3 billion to C$1.9 billion through 2011. Also marking a shift favoring some "signature projects" and increasing its diplomatic presence [...]
2008-06-11 21:53:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA880CANADA BRIEFS KEY PARTNERS ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Deputy Minister of Canada's Afghanistan Task Force in the Privy Council Office David Mulroney on June 25 briefed Canada's key partners on Canada's new priorities in Afghanistan. Mulroney told the chiefs of mission or representatives of Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zeala [...]
2008-06-27 20:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA910NEW CIHR PRESIDENT ASSUMES DUTIES
[...] (U) Minister of Health Tony Clement appointed Dr. Alain Beaudet to the presidency of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR),effective July 1. Dr. Beaudet replaces Dr. Pierre Chartrand, the acting CIHR head since the resignation of longtime president Alan Bernstein in October of 20 [...]
2008-07-07 20:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON TBID CA
08OTTAWA912CANADA, QUEBEC AND FRANCE SIGN AGREEMENT ON
[...] (U) On July 4, the organizations for health research funding of Canada (the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, and Institute of Aging; CIHR),Quebec (the Fonds de la recherche medicale, FRSQ) and France (the Institut national de la [...]
2008-07-08 15:26:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO CA
08OUAGADOUGOU268Burkina Faso: French DCM on Compaore's
[...] (S) Key Points: The French DCM told us April 8 that: -- Burkina Faso President Compaore was recently operated on for cataracts in Paris. -- Compaore is probably in good health, but may have contracted HIV/AIDS after years of sexual promiscuity. -- Compaore has better relations with S [...]
2008-04-09 11:59:00Embassy OuagadougouSECRETPGOV PREL PINR EAGR UV
08OUAGADOUGOU332BURKINA FASO TO HOST AFRICAN "COTTON UNIVERSITY"
[...] Key Point: -- A French foundation and business school, with the financial backing of France and the European Union, are working with a regional producers association to found a "Cotton University" in Burkina Faso for students from 15 cotton-producing nations. 2. Key Judgment: -- The i [...]
2008-04-24 07:56:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR ECON EAID PREL USTR UV
08OUAGADOUGOU519Burkina Faso: Meetings with President Compaore and
[...] Ambassador met with President Blaise Compaore the evening of June 13. The President said that he had just discussed Zimbabwe with Minister of Foreign Affairs Bassole (currently in Paris) and Burkina Faso's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Michael Kafando. The PermRep is awaiti [...]
2008-06-13 19:34:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PINR UNSC ZI UV LY SF
08OUAGADOUGOU963ARS Speaker Dr. Ekovich Educates Burkina on U.S.
[...] Summary: August 29 -September 6, 2008 ARS Speaker Dr. Steven Ekovich presented a series of lectures to Burkinabe audiences from academia, media, government, military and students. The topic themes revolved around the U.S. political system, the electoral process, and especially the upcoming P [...]
2008-10-15 16:29:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KPAO PHUM UV
08PARAMARIBO180SURINAME CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR TELTING ON GSM-102
[...] (SBU) Summary. Central Bank Governor Andre Telting told the Ambassador he understands the U.S. government position is not to reduce or forgive portions of the outstanding GSM-102 debt. Given U.S. "inflexibility" on this issue, he will proceed first on negotiations on Brazilian debt, the only [...]
2008-05-02 20:00:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ETRD PREL NS
08PARAMARIBO42SURINAME: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2008
[...] (U) Post submits the 2008 Investment Climate Statement for Suriname. OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ------------------------------- 2. The Government of Suriname (GOS) has identified Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a key element in achieving sustainable development. In its 2006-2011 [...]
2008-02-04 16:42:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC KTDB PGOV USTR NS
08PARIS1004France on Food Security
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Counselor raised reftel points on the President's global food security initiative with Francois Giovalucchi, advisor to Cooperation Minister Joyandet, and Florence Lasbennes, Cooperation Economic and Agricultural Development Office Chief, on May 19. Giovalucchi and Lasben [...]
2008-05-28 09:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO FR
08PARIS1005SUDAN/CHAD: FRENCH WILL CONSIDER SANCTIONING FOUR
[...] (C) GOF MFA Sudan desk officer Frederic Bouvier on May 28 said that the French would seriously consider joining us in seeking sanctions against the four individuals named in reftel. He said that the GOF would have to study reftel demarche before coming to a decision but he indicated that, a [...]
2008-05-28 11:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU FR
08PARIS1011S/CRS HERBST DISCUSSES CIVIL-MILITARY COOPERATION
[...] (C) On May 16, S/CRS John Herbst met with French Government and OECD officials to brief on S/CRS activities and discuss potential areas for cooperation. At the MFA, Jean-Hughes Simon-Michel, PDAS for Strategic Affairs, discussed French activities to promote civil-military cooperation within [...]
2008-05-28 13:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMCAP PGOV PREL KCRS AF FR
08PARIS1024FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE DRAFT AGENDA PASSED TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 15:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINS MARR MOPS KDEM EAID ECON FR IZ
08PARIS1026UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION FOR GOVERNMENT OF
[...] (U) Per reftel para 5 here below updated contact information for key French government officials as requested. HEAD OF STATE ------------- 2. (SBU) President of the French Republic Nicolas SARKOZY - Office telephone number 011 33 1 42 92 81 00 - Residence telephone number 011 33 1 42 92 [...]
2008-05-29 15:47:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT PGOV FR
08PARIS1029UNESCO SPRING EXECUTIVE BOARD: POLITICAL ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNESCO's April 1-17 Executive Board was a success for the United States. On the whole, we enjoyed good working relations with countries in other geographic groups. Regional voting blocs and economic and other groupings, such as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the G-77 initi [...]
2008-05-30 09:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCU IR KPAL KV PHUM PREL SCUL UNESCO VE XF
08PARIS1035NON-PAPER ON U.S. RESPONSE TO LATEST IAEA REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-30 15:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA FR IR
08PARIS1038UNMEE, CHAD/SUDAN, DJIBOUTI/ERITREA: MFA DAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF/C/E DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal said that she understood that Belgium would draft a letter on behalf of the UNSC to be sent to Eritrea and Ethiopia to determine their views on UNMEE's future, which could indicate a preferred course of action should one or both reject co [...]
2008-06-02 14:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER ET
08PARIS1054UNESCO - ISRAEL AMBASSADOR'S VISIT 28 MAY
[...] (U) Israeli Ambassador to UNESCO Kornbluth met with Ambassador Oliver on May 28 to review possible issues of concern that might be raised during the upcoming World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec next month. Negative Sites on the World Heritage List 2. (SBU) Ambassador Kornbluth b [...]
2008-06-03 13:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNESCO SCUL KPAL XF FR IS JO
08PARIS1070IOM DG CANDIDATE AMBASSADOR BILL SWING:
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-04 12:35:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREF PREL SMIG FR
08PARIS1071 FRENCH BIOTECH FINALLY ADOPTED - MORE TO COME
[...] Summary: On May 22, France adopted a biotech bill after weeks of rancorous debate within the Parliament. The bill theoretically guarantees French farmers and consumers the right to produce and consume with or without GMOs. However, ministerial decrees implementing the legislation will define [...]
2008-06-04 14:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS1073WORLD HERITAGE WORKING GROUP ON ELECTION OF MEMBERS - PARIS
[...] (U) Summary: The second session of the Working Group meeting to examine issues concerning the election of members of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) made little progress, as expected, but advanced on defining the key points to consider. End summary. 2. (U) The open-ended Working Group [...]
2008-06-04 15:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCUL
08PARIS1078AIRBUS: FEARS OF DEFENSE TRADE CONTROLS HURT U.S. EXPORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In spite of significant efforts to accelerate processing of export control licenses at the State Department, U.S. and European aerospace companies continue to be sharply critical of the USG export control system. Their perception affects a major American export industry -- U.S. a [...]
2008-06-05 15:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ECON ETTC KOMC ETRD EAIR PREL FR
08PARIS1083FRANCE URGES INCREASED PRESSURE ON BURMA TO SPEED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 15:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM BM FR
08PARIS1084FRENCH SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WILL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 15:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UN UNSC SWMN PHUM FR
08PARIS1085 FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY: AGRICULTURAL POLICY GOALS
[...] Summary: France hopes to have the CAP health check reforms passed during its EU presidency and will initiate discussions on a post 2013 CAP policy and budget. The GOF's three main objectives will be to maintain EU food sovereignty; maintain the economic and territorial health of EU agricultur [...]
2008-06-06 16:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD PGOV WTRO EUN FR INR
08PARIS1086USDP DISCUSSES LEBANON, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN AND
[...] (S) Summary. On May 29, Eric Edelman, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, met with French interlocutors including Gerard Araud, Political Director at the MFA, Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MOD and Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor at the Elysee, to discus [...]
2008-06-09 07:52:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL MOPS MCAP AF LE PK IR SY FR
08PARIS109FRANCE CRITICIZE ARRESTS OF SYRIAN ACTIVISTS BUT
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to French MFA Syria desk officer Jean-Christophe Auge on January 14. He did not have an immediate response and stated he would have to get back to us. We used a January 17 meeting between visiting Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Securit [...]
2008-01-22 17:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM KMPI FR SY
08PARIS1100FRANCE AGREES WITH USG APPROACH ON RWANDAN FDLR
[...] (S) MFA Great Lakes desk officer Laurent Chevallier on June 9 told AF/C Director Wycoff that France agreed with the USG approach to Rwandan FDLR sanctions as expressed reftel (other aspects of the discussion reported separately). Chevallier said that seven of the eight names on the U.S. list [...]
2008-06-10 12:21:00Embassy ParisSECRETETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC XA FR
08PARIS1101AL-SHABAAB: FRANCE OPEN TO SANCTIONS BUT NEEDS TO
[...] (S) MFA Somalia Desk Officer Thierry Caboche on June 10 said, in response to reftel, that France would study further our case for imposing UN sanctions on the al-Shabaab organization based in Somalia. (NOTE: DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal our normal interlocutor on such an issue, is out of t [...]
2008-06-11 06:04:00Embassy ParisSECRETPTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM SO BG FR
08PARIS1104SUDAN/CHAD: FRANCE STILL OPPOSED TO USG APPROACH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Presidential AF-advisor Romain Serman on June 9, 10, and 11 reiterated France's opposition to the USG position on sanctioning four individuals in connection with Sudan and Chad, particularly with respect to Daoussa Deby Itno, indicating that sanctioning Daoussa was a vir [...]
2008-06-11 11:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CD FR
08PARIS1116DJIBOUTI/ERITREA: FRENCH MFA ASSESSMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-12 14:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PINS ER DJ FR
08PARIS1117ZIMBABWE: FRENCH AMENABLE TO FORMAL UNSC MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-12 15:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS1118OECD/Export Credits: Plenary Covers Tied Aid Project,
[...] (SBU) Summary: The OECD's Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees (ECG) and the Participants to the Export Credit Arrangement (Participants) held their semi-annual plenary sessions and Aircraft Sector Understanding (ASU) meetings in Paris on April 21-25, 2008. The U.S. obtained s [...]
2008-06-13 08:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP EFIN ETRD EINV EXIM EAIR ECON OECD KCOR CH IN
08PARIS1130FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE: CUBA, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA
[...] (C) Summary. On June 13, MFA Deputy Office Director for CFSP Mathieu Carmona said Cuba will be the primary focus of the June GAERC. Carmona said that the COREPER meeting ran late into the evening of June 12 and that some of the resulting agenda items were a surprise; he commented that the S [...]
2008-06-13 16:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EUN ZI SO IR IZ IS CU FR
08PARIS1131PREVENTING ASSET FLIGHT FROM BANK MELLI IN THE EU3
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-13 16:18:00Embassy ParisSECRETKNNP EFIN ETTC PARM PTER FR
08PARIS1132FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE: CUBA, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA
[...] (C) Summary. On June 13, MFA Deputy Office Director for CFSP Mathieu Carmona said Cuba will be the primary focus of the June GAERC. Carmona said that the COREPER meeting ran late into the evening of June 12 and that some of the resulting agenda items were a surprise; he commented that the S [...]
2008-06-13 16:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KPAL EUN FR ZI IR IZ IS CU
08PARIS1138ENERGY SECURITY: FRANCE WANTS EU ENGAGEMENT WITH CASPIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Steven Mann, Coordinator for Central Asian Energy Issues met May 29 with GOF officials, who outlined French plans to promote energy security during its upcoming presidency of the EU Council. Specific ideas included greater political engagement with Caspian countries, [...]
2008-06-16 14:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ZK PREL FR
08PARIS1139FRENCH PRESIDENCY READOUT ON GUEANT/LEVITTE JUNE
[...] (C) French presidency NEA adviser Boris Boillon gave us a quick readout June 16 of the visit made to Damascus a day earlier by Elysee SecGen Claude Gueant, Diplomatic Adviser Jean David Levitte, and Boillon. The trio met with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad for about an hour, followed up by [...]
2008-06-16 14:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM FR SY LE
08PARIS114SARKOZY, KOUCHNER ADVISERS ON NATO, RUSSIA, IRAN,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 16, Joseph Wood, Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, met with Philippe Errera, strategic affairs adviser to FM Kouchner, and Francois Richier, strategic affairs adviser to President Sarkozy. Errera and Richier provided their views on [...]
2008-01-23 14:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR NATO FR RU IR GG UP AG
08PARIS1144FRANCE WILL ATTEND VIENNA CONFERENCE ON NAHR
[...] (U) Embassy passed reftel message on the Vienna conference on Nahr al-Barid to the French MFA's equivalent to the NEA bureau as well as to the staff of French Cooperation Ministeron Alain Joyandet June 9. The French MFA had already publicly saluted the Austrian initiative in a June 5 statem [...]
2008-06-17 07:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM KPAL UNRWA FR LE
08PARIS1160FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON BERLIN CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-19 15:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PBTS PHUM KPAL EUN FR IS
08PARIS1168NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF LEBANON/SYRIA AT
[...] (C) Summary: Lebanon/Syria dominated NEA-themed discussions between visiting NEA A/S Welch and his French MFA counterpart, Jean Felix-Paganon, June 12. Felix-Paganon and members of his team voiced relative satisfaction with the situation in Lebanon after the Doha accord but were watching c [...]
2008-06-20 12:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR LE SY IS IR IZ
08PARIS1169NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF IRAN AT THE FRENCH
[...] (SBU) NEA A/S Welch held extensive bilateral consultations on key NEA issues with French MFA counterparts in Paris on June 12. This cable focuses on Iran; other topics reported septel (notal). Participants included: USG --- --NEA A/S David Welch --Deputy Legal Adviser Jonathan Schwar [...]
2008-06-20 12:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ETTC MNUC KNNP EUN FR IR IZ
08PARIS1170NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF IRAQ AT FRENCH MFA,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-20 13:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PTER PINS EUN FR IZ IR
08PARIS1172THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FRENCH-SPEAKING COMMUNITY OF BELGIUM
[...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. agencies, including those involved in international trade agreements, need to keep a careful eye on the efforts of the government of Belgium's French-speaking community to enlist UNESCO -- in an unhelpful way -- in the fight against fly-by-night diploma mills in Africa and [...]
2008-06-23 06:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNESCO SCUL ETRD ECA BE XA
08PARIS1174NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF WESTERN SAHARA, UNION
[...] (SBU) NEA A/S Welch held extensive bilateral consultations on key NEA issues with French MFA counterparts in Paris on June 12. This cable focuses on Western Sahara and the Union for the Mediterranean; other topics reported septel (notal). Participants included: USG --- --NEA A/S Davi [...]
2008-06-23 06:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN FR AG LY SY MO
08PARIS1177UNESCO - UPDATE ON HOLOCAUST RESOLUTION NEXT STEPS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Warning that Washington's end of fiscal year budget priorities will be finalized soon, the US again asked UNESCO's education sector for details on the recommendations it will present to the upcoming Executive Board on Holocaust education. ADG Education Burnett promised to deliver [...]
2008-06-23 14:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCUL
08PARIS118INFORMAL FRENCH RESPONSE TO S/I SATTERFIELD'S
[...] (U) See action request in the second sub-tick of para 3. 2. (C) French MFA Iraq desk officer Olivier Masseret on January 8 gave us an "informal" response to the paper S/I David Satterfield passed to the Elysee and the MFA on December 28. Masseret explained that we would receive an "off [...]
2008-01-23 16:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KDEM FR IZ
08PARIS1183FRANCE ACCEPTS IN PRINCIPLE SEEKING A PRST ON
[...] (SBU) We passed reftel points to the French MFA early on June 23, including to the AF and IO/UNP equivalents. DCM subsequently raised the subject with French MFA Political Affairs Director (P-equivalent) Gerard Araud. He stated general French agreement with our points and general assessmen [...]
2008-06-23 16:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC FR ZI
08PARIS1187FRANCE -- INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD
[...] (U) Post conferred with French Ministry of Labor officials who track allegations of forced labor and child labor. They confirmed (ref (A) para 2) that, in France, "there is no record of forced labor or child labor in the production of goods." Please visit Paris' Classified Website at: htt [...]
2008-06-24 10:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDELAB SOCI FR
08PARIS1188FRENCH REQUEST FOR U.S. DEMARCHE TO EU MEMBERS ON
[...] (U) Action request in para 5. 2. (C) Toward the end of a June 23 meeting DCM had with French MFA Political Director Gerard Araud (P-equivalent) focused on Iran and Zimbabwe (septels),Araud brought up the prospect of the EU rescinding its designation of the MEK as a terrorist group. Ar [...]
2008-06-24 11:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER FR IR
08PARIS11991267 MONITORING TEAM: SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR DRAFT
[...] (SBU) MFA Security and Strategic Affairs bureau took on board reftel points and text and subsequently informed Embassy of three points relating to the preamble, notifications and list reviews, all of which were included in MFA instructions sent to the French mission to the UN. The GOF wants t [...]
2008-06-25 12:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER UNSC
08PARIS120S/WCI AMB WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH FRENCH MFA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA legal advisor Edwige Belliard met with S/WCI Ambassador Williamson on January 7 to discuss the possible transfer of releasable Guantanamo detainees to EU countries, the debate within the ICC Assembly of States Parties (ASP) on the Crime of Aggression, and the future out [...]
2008-01-23 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PGOV PREL PHUM FR
08PARIS1200POLDIR PROPOSES FURTHER TARGETED IRAN SANCTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 23, Political Director Gerard Araud summoned DCM to talk about Iran. He said his guess was that little would change in the coming months so the question was how to avoid the extremes of acquiescing or resorting to military force. He advocated a two-pronged approach invo [...]
2008-06-25 13:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC PREL KNNP MNUC EFIN PGOV PHUM IR FR
08PARIS1201 PARIS CLUB: June 2008 Session, Private Sector Meeting,
[...] Summary: At the Paris Club's June 10-12 session, the tour d'horizon addressed Burundi, Central African Republic, Grenada, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Sudan and Togo. Germany requested an informal update on Argentina; Russia sought resolution of its promissory note issue. As for methodological iss [...]
2008-06-25 15:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS1202AF/C DIRECTOR WYCOFF'S JUNE 9 PARIS CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In June 9 meetings with AF/C Director Wycoff, French Presidency and MFA officials reiterated French differences with the U.S. on sanctions regarding Chad and Sudan, with the French arguing for pressure on all parties (including sanctions and the threat of sanctions) to encour [...]
2008-06-25 15:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC PTER PINR SU CD CT RW FR
08PARIS1203PARIS SUPPORT CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN: DONORS
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: International pledges totaled more than $20 billion at the Paris Support Conference for Afghanistan on June 12. This amount doubled the pledge total achieved at the 2006 London Conference and demonstrated th [...]
2008-06-25 16:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PREL PGOV AORC FR AF XB XF XG XR
08PARIS1221FRENCH MFA DAS-EQUIVALENT FOR THE LEVANT ON
[...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent Ludovic Pouille on June 26 provided a rundown of key issues in his area of responsibility, most notably Sarkozy's visit to Israel, French views of where Israel is with Syria and Lebanon, Syria and the July 13 Paris summit, rumors of a Sarkozy visit to [...]
2008-06-27 16:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL FR IS SY LE SA
08PARIS1225NOTIFICATION REGARDING NASA-CNSA CIVIL SPACE
[...] (C) Per instructions reftel, on June 27 at 0900 hrs Paris local time, NASA Europe Representative Barry presented Mr. Peter Hulsroj, Director Legal Affairs and External Relations, European Space Agency, with subject non-paper which Hulsroj appreciated receiving. He noted that ESA has some exper [...]
2008-06-27 16:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL
08PARIS1227SOLICITING PLEDGES TO FUND THE NUCLEAR THREAT
[...] (SBU) On June 27, ESTH Counselor and ESTH Officer delivered to Martin Briens, Director of the Office of Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation, reftel demarche regarding the need to raise matching funds to support the proposal under the Nuclear Threat Initiative to create a nuclear fuel ban [...]
2008-06-30 06:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFR KNNP IAEA ENRG
08PARIS123S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH A/S
[...] (C) SUMMARY:On January 7, Ambassador Williamson met with acting A/S-equivalent for international organizations Marc Giacomini and Christian Bernier, Special Assistant for international tribunals, to discuss various war crimes issues, particularly the International Criminal Court (ICC) and res [...]
2008-01-24 10:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM FR
08PARIS1240 FRENCH SEEK TO INCORPORATE SOCIETAL PREFERENCES INTO EU
[...] Summary: In a memorandum submitted to the European Council on June 23, France moved forward with its plans to require that imported products conform to standards for EU production. The stated goal is to offset higher costs of European producers due to EU "societal" standards for food producti [...]
2008-06-30 16:48:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD PGOV WTRO PINR FR
08PARIS1241FRANCE "REGRETS" U.S. DECISION REGARDING THE UN
[...] Post delivered reftel demarche to MFA PDAS equivalent for International Organizations, Marc Giacomini, on June 16. Giacomini expressed France's "regret" for the U.S. decision to no longer participate in HRC sessions or activites and noted France's desire to continue working with the U.S. to ad [...]
2008-07-01 07:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDFR PHUM PREL
08PARIS1242FRANCE: SIX-PARTY TALKS SECOND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-01 07:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PREL PARM FR
08PARIS1245UNSCR CHAPTER VII ON ZIMBABWE: FRENCH SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-01 14:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KEDM UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS1248UNSC/ZIMBABWE: FRENCH CONTINUE TO AGREE WITH U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-02 14:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS1261FRANCE/SYRIA: WAITING FOR BASHAR
[...] (C) In addition to what was reported in ref, French Presidency NEA adviser Boris Boillon discussed Syria and Lebanon with us July 2. French President Sarkozy, according to Boillon, raised the status of the indirect dialogue between Syria and Israel via Turkey with Israeli PM Olmert. The Isr [...]
2008-07-03 18:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR SY LE IS SA
08PARIS1267FINANCING THE U.S. NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE: FRANCE PUSHES FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: French Trade Minister Anne-Marie Idrac told visiting Senators Murkowski and Craig June 30 that France would like to see DoE tender investment guarantees more expeditiously, and proposed making French export financing available to help fund nuclear reactor construction in the U.S [...]
2008-07-07 16:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EIND ETRD PREL FR
08PARIS1284SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: FRENCH URGE USG AGREE TO
[...] (C) During a conversation mostly focused on Syria/Lebanon (reported septel),French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille on July 8 asked that the USG consider negotiations on the wording of a UNSCR based on the Libyan draft currently in play. He understood the draft had not bee [...]
2008-07-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC FR PA IS
08PARIS1285SUDAN: FRENCH CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBLE ICC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA Sudan Desk Officer Frederic Bouvier on July 7 expressed concern that ICC Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo might soon seek to indict Sudan President Bashir for war crimes, which the French believe could have a negative impact on events in the region. Bouvier said France woul [...]
2008-07-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINS SU FR
08PARIS1286ZIMBABWE: FRANCE FAVORS SANCTIONING GIDEON GONO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS1287SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: FRENCH URGE USG AGREE TO
[...] (C) During a conversation mostly focused on Syria/Lebanon (reported septel),French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille on July 8 asked that the USG consider negotiations on the wording of a UNSCR based on the Libyan draft currently in play. He understood the draft had not bee [...]
2008-07-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC FR PA IS
08PARIS129TOGO: COOPERATION MINISTER BAWARA'S VISIT TO PARIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo Cooperation Minister Bawara focused on restarting bilateral and multilateral development assistance programs for Togo during his January 16-18 visit to France. According to MFA Desk Officer Daniel Westerink, Togo has developed a possible roadmap that could result in the r [...]
2008-01-24 16:15:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM EAID EFIN MARR TO FR
08PARIS1291FRANCE SUPPORTS ADDITIONAL MEASURES ON IRISL CARGO
[...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper July 7 to Martin Briens, Office Director for Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation at the MFA. Briens was highly supportive of the U.S. approach, noting that France had been behind the original listing of the two Iranian companies in UNSC [...]
2008-07-09 12:00:00Embassy ParisSECRETPARM PINR PREL KNNP EUN FR
08PARIS1292FRENCH MFA ON KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT, PARIS DONORS
[...] (SBU) We informed French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille July 8 of the substance of reftel demarche on assistance to the Palestinian Authority. Pouille agreed with our assessment that Arab contributors tend to be the laggards in terms of meeting pledges they made at last D [...]
2008-07-09 13:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG EAID ECON FR IS
08PARIS1293AID FOR HORN OF AFRICA: FRANCE DISCUSSING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-09 13:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO FR
08PARIS130PRESIDENT SARKOZY ARTICULATES HIS FRAMEWORK FOR
[...] (U) In this annual New Year's message to the Diplomatic Corps on delivered on January 18, President Sarkozy laid out a theoretical justification for recasting France's role on the international scene in the twin challenges before the international community: climate change and the "return of [...]
2008-01-24 16:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV FR
08PARIS1304ZIMBABWE/UNSCR: FRENCH "REASONABLY OPTIMISTIC" OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 10:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU UK FR
08PARIS1305STRONG FRENCH SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL EU SANCTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of France (GOF) is pressing EU counterparts to adopt a "Common Position" that transposes UNSCR 1803 in a forward-leaning way, including tougher measures on export credits, dual use exports, financial due diligence, and cargo inspections. The French hope this poli [...]
2008-07-10 12:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN ETTC PARM PINR KNNP IR FR
08PARIS1306HORN OF AFRICA: FURTHER ON FRENCH ASSISTANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 14:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO FR
08PARIS1315EMISSIONS CONSENSUS WITH A GMO KICKER CLAIMED FOR EU ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 16:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV EAGR EU FR
08PARIS1316FRANCE NONCOMMITTAL ON PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on Prisoners of Conscience Public Affairs event to the French MFA on July 2 but did not receive a substantive response. After multiple follow-ups, DAS-equivalent for Human Rights Jacques Pellet told PolOff on July 10 that the GOF is still consulting EU par [...]
2008-07-10 17:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN PHUM KDEM
08PARIS1317FRANCE REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR SHAB'A FARMS MENTION
[...] (C) In consecutive meetings at the French MFA July 8 and 9, officials in the NEA bureau-equivalent have asked for U.S. support for French mention of Shab'a Farms in the draft PRST the French mission to the UN will present in response to the UNSYG's latest report on UNSCR 1701. DAS-equivalent [...]
2008-07-10 18:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER UNSC FR LE SY IS
08PARIS1318LIBYAN DRAFT UNSCR ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS:
[...] (C) Unaware of fast-moving events in New York (per ref A),we met late July 9 with French MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Patrice Paoli to discuss the Libyan draft UNSCR and other topics (reported separately). Paoli noted his earlier conversation the same day with NEA A/S Welch. We presented Paoli [...]
2008-07-10 18:15:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC FR IS LY
08PARIS1323SYRIAN FM MU'ALLIM VISITS PARIS
[...] (C) Summary: Syrian Foreign Minister Mu'allim visited Paris July 4 -- the same day Ingrid Betancourt triumphantly returned to France following her liberation from captivity in Colombia -- and met French FM Kouchner as well as French presidency officials (including a drop by from an otherwise [...]
2008-07-11 11:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER FR SY LE IS
08PARIS1325THALES PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN END USE CHECK
[...] (SBU) On July 10, Thales Alenia Space President/CEO Reynald Seznec and Thales Group Senior VP for EU and NATO cooperation met with Econ Mincouns and Econoff in response to Embassy's letter relaying DTCC request for information (reftel). They previewed their pending written response, leaving a [...]
2008-07-11 11:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC FR
08PARIS1326French Rhetoric on WTO Doha Negotiations - Rebuttal
[...] (U) This is an Action Request for State and USTR. 2. (C) Summary and Action Request: French Trade Minister Idrac will chair a special EU Council meeting July 18 and seek to "rebalance and set the line" for the European Commission prior to the WTO mini-Ministerial July 21. In addition to Pr [...]
2008-07-11 15:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL WTO FR
08PARIS1329FRENCH MFA ON MIDEAST PEACE ISSUES AT THE JULY 13
[...] (C) During a July 9 discussion of the pending Libyan draft UNSCR on Israeli settlements, French MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Patrice Paoli observed that the impasse over the UNSCR underscored how such short-term annoyances took away from the relatively good prospects for peace over the longer term [...]
2008-07-11 16:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL EUN FR IS SY
08PARIS1330 SARKOZY'S PRIORITIES FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY DURING
[...] (U) Summary: France has made energy and climate change the top priority for its EU Presidency. The EU Work Program, recent actions by the European Parliament, and the meetings of Environment and Energy Ministers from the 27 member countries shed further light on the French Presidency's objecti [...]
2008-07-11 16:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV FR EU
08PARIS1331BETANCOURT "INSIDER" HINTS AT FUTURE PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A Board Member of the Committee in Support of Ingrid Betancourt told Poloff on July 11 that former hostage/presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt will focus her energy on securing the release of all remaining FARC and ELN hostages in Colombia and he strongly hinted Betancourt wo [...]
2008-07-11 19:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM FR EUN PGOV PTER PREF CO SP
08PARIS1333COUNSELOR COHEN ENGAGES FRENCH ON PAKISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary. On July 8 and 9, State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen discussed Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Palestine, terrorism, ESDP, and the French Defense White Paper with officials from the French MFA, Elysee, MOD, and Secretariat General of National Defense (SGDN). MFA interloc [...]
2008-07-15 10:13:00Embassy ParisSECRETMCAP PGOV PREL EUN AF PA IR IZ FR
08PARIS1337FRENCH SUPPORT FOR UNSCR 1816 (SOMALIA PIRACY)
[...] (SBU) In response to ref A, MFA Horn of Africa Desk Officer Thierry Caboche reviewed assistance France has been providing to Africa (refs B-C),particularly France's engagement in naval patrols to counter piracy in the Horn of Africa and its efforts to engage Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sw [...]
2008-07-15 15:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT KCRM KCRS KJUS PHAS PREL SO XA XW FR
08PARIS135FRENCH HAVE NO INFORMATION ON THE FATE OF MISSING
[...] (SBU) The embassy passed reftel message concerning missing Amcit Robert Levinson to French MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf Franck Gellet as well as Iran desk officer Arnaud Pescheux on December 13. We stressed the request for any information the GOF or its embassy in Tehran [...]
2008-01-25 10:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CASC PHUM FR IR
08PARIS1351AMBASSADOR STAPLETON PRESSES FRENCH MFA ON CUBA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-16 15:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR PGOV
08PARIS1353FRENCH TRADE MINISTER GIVES NO GROUND ON DOHA - EXPRESSES
[...] (C) Summary: French Trade Minister Idrac gave Ambassador Stapleton no indication that France is prepared to support a WTO agreement at this time. She described the July 18 Special EU Council meeting as "normal" in advance of the July 21 mini-Ministerial on Doha, and underlined that France will [...]
2008-07-16 17:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL WTO EU FR
08PARIS1358THE SYRIA/LEBANON SIDESHOW LARGELY UPSTAGES THE
[...] (C) Summary: The GOF is pleased with what it considers to have been a major diplomatic triumph by using Syrian President Bashar al-Asad's participation in the recent Paris summit on the Mediterranean to achieve a public commitment from the Lebanese and Syrian presidents to normalize relatio [...]
2008-07-17 15:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM PBTS ECON FR SY LE IS IR
08PARIS1360FRENCH VIEWS ON NATO TRAINING MISSION - IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-17 17:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO IZ FR
08PARIS1366FRANCE/ZIMBABWE: FRENCH TO PROPOSE STRENGTHENING
[...] (U) This is an action request (para 4). 2. (C) MFA Zimbabwe Desk Officer Isabelle de Boisgelen said on July 17 that France would propose to EU partners at the July 22-23 GAERC that the EU strengthen existing sanctions against Zimbabwe in the wake of the sham election and the failure to [...]
2008-07-18 13:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL KDEM ZI FR
08PARIS1367DRC: PRESIDENT KABILA'S VISIT TO FRANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DRC President Kabila's July 16-17 visit to Paris went smoothly, MFA DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal reported on July 17, with an emphasis on economic issues centered on reducing or canceling DRC's IFI debts. Debt reduction has been complicated by new debts DRC has incurred with C [...]
2008-07-18 13:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN PINS CG FR
08PARIS1368SUDAN: ICC ISSUE DOMINATES ALL OTHERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal said that the possible ICC prosecution of Sudan President Bashir was dominating the Sudan/Darfur debate, reinforced during Sudan FM Deng Alor's July 16 consultations with the French in Paris. This was the only subject he discussed, seeking ways [...]
2008-07-18 13:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR MOPS SU FR
08PARIS1369OECD: REPORT OF JUNE 2008 MEETING OF THE WORKING GROUP ON
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The OECD Working Group on Bribery (WGB) met June 16-20, 2008 at OECD headquarters in Paris. The agenda for the plenary session included the following topics: Responses by stakeholders to WGB Consultation Paper Argentina Phase 2 report Australia post-Phase 2 written report Es [...]
2008-07-18 15:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKCOR ECON EINV ETRD PREL OECD
08PARIS137CUBAN MIGRANTS DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-25 15:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREF SMIG FR IC UK
08PARIS1372FRENCH HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT THE 63RD UN
[...] . (C) Post raised reftel demarche with newly-appointed MFA Americas Director Elizabeth Beton-Delegue, who replied both President Sarkozy and FM Kouchner would take part in the 63rd UNGA. FM Kouchner would seek a bilateral meeting with Secretary Rice at UNGA. The MFA provided no additional [...]
2008-07-18 16:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA FR
08PARIS1376FRENCH MFA PUBLICLY ENDORSES THE PRINCIPLE OF UN
[...] (U) French MFA spokesperson Eric Chevallier told reporters July 15 that France supported in principle the option of placing the disputed Shab'a Farms territory in southern Lebanon under UN supervision. The context of his exchange with reporters leading to this subject is unclear from the tr [...]
2008-07-18 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS FR LE SY IS
08PARIS1377A NEW BURST OF FRENCH ACTIVISM ON
[...] (C) Summary: Immediately following the July 13 Paris summit on the Mediterranean, French FM Kouchner has called on the EU to reflect at an early September meeting in Avignon (informal EU FM meeting or "gymnich")on how it can play a more active role in Middle East peace negotiations. He cla [...]
2008-07-21 11:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV KPAL PBTS KWBG FR IS
08PARIS138FRANCE CONSIDERING WTO IMPLICATIONS BEFORE BANNING
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on January 24 to MFA desk officer Jeremy Petite. Petite responded that France is currently considering WTO implications of a ban and will make a decision in line with EU partners. When questioned about France's willingness to sanction the three Burmese [...]
2008-01-25 15:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PHUM BM FR
08PARIS1380FRENCH VIEWS ON JULY GAERC: UKRAINE, ZIMBABWE,
[...] (C) Summary: On July 18, MFA Deputy Office Chief for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona reviewed the agenda items for the July GAERC meeting. Carmona said that the French Presidency had, at FM Kouchner's request, proposed a reduced list of topics, but that other member [...]
2008-07-21 15:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV EUN IR SO SU CD IZ UP GG FR
08PARIS1385FRANCE SUPPORTS SENDING HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-21 16:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN NGO PHUM UN AORC
08PARIS1386FRANCE SUPPORTS OAS LANGUAGE TO KEEP PRESSURE ON
[...] (C) On July 18, Poloff delivered the reftel demarche to French MFA Colombia and Venezuela desk officer Lionel Paradisi. While the GOF was in agreement with the USG regarding efforts to free the remaining hostages, end the guerilla movement of the FARC, and close the drug trade, GOF views do n [...]
2008-07-21 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN PTER COLOMBO PLAN VE HR AF SNAR
08PARIS139A/S SILVERBERG REVIEWS UN ISSUES WITH FRENCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A/S Kristen Silverberg reviewed international organization issues with French counterpart Sylvie Bermann on January 22 in Paris. Bermann signaled doubt that France would host an International Compact on Iraq, described the aftermath of the NIE on Iran as "disastrous," reiterate [...]
2008-01-25 15:49:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC UNGA PHUM KPKO AF ET ER CD
08PARIS1391Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation - July 16-18
[...] (U) On July 6-8, Federal Transit Deputy Administrator Sherry E. Little led a delegation of Federal Transit Administration (FTA) officials, Congressional Representatives, and private sector participants to a conference in Lyon that FTA co-sponsored with the GOF on public-private partnerships (PP [...]
2008-07-22 17:33:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN ETRD EAIR EWWT FR
08PARIS141FRANCE 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...]
2008-01-28 14:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR FR
08PARIS1412 GOF CONSULTING ON ANIMAL CLONING
[...] Summary and Background: The French Ministry of Agriculture (MinAg) is currently holding consultations on animal cloning in order to prepare a national regulatory framework on the issue. The MinAg is using the French Advisory Committee on Food (in French, "Conseil national de l'Alimentation", [...]
2008-07-23 16:51:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS1418UNESCO BRIEFING ON THE NOVEMBER 2008 INTERNATIONAL
[...] Summary: On June 27, 2008, UNESCO briefed Member States on the organization of the November 2008 International Conference on Education (ICE) sponsored by UNESCO's Bureau of International Education (IBE) to be held in Geneva. The topic of this conference is "Inclusive Education: The Way of the [...]
2008-07-24 14:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCUL BE
08PARIS1423 PARIS CLUB - JULY 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's July 7-8 session, the Vice Chairman briefed creditors on his recent meetings in Kinshasa with the Ministers of Economy and Finance, noting concern that a proposed infrastructure deal involving a DRC sovereign guarantee was at odds with the Paris Club's project [...]
2008-07-24 16:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS1424FRANCE LOOKS BEYOND 1803 IMPLEMENTATION
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The GOF supports using insurance to put further pressure on Iran, including its shipping, and is prepared to meet July 25 in Paris to begin work with a handful of like-minded countries on actions of this sort. Senior officials see as "possible" the adoption of an EU Common Pos [...]
2008-07-24 17:26:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KNNP PARM EUN IR FR
08PARIS1426FRENCH MFA RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON DEALING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 23 Poloffs delivered reftel points to French MFA Syria desk officer Jean-Christophe Auge and European Affairs officer Anne Predour. Auge said a Sarkozy visit to Damascus was highly likely but subject to a last-minute cancellation depending on events in Lebanon and whether [...]
2008-07-25 15:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR SY LE PHUM
08PARIS1436GOF HOSTS INFORMAL MEETING ON GLOBAL FOOD
[...] (SBU) Summary: On 7/23 FranceQs Ministry of Agriculture hosted an informal meeting with international partners to further thinking on a Qglobal partnership for food and agriculture.Q The proposal fleshes out an initiative initially raised by President Sarkozy at the June 3 High-level Food S [...]
2008-07-28 16:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR ECON FR
08PARIS1439S/E CUMBER'S JULY 21 MEETINGS IN PARIS
[...] (SBU) Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber stressed the importance of Muslim integration, social cohesion and individual accountability during his visit to Paris July 21. At the Institute of the Arab World, he outlined the U.S. Government's effort to [...]
2008-07-29 07:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KIRF FR
08PARIS1446FRANCE PROMISES A "MORE VOCAL" EU PRESIDENCY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: State DRL and IO officials met with French MFA International Organizations and Human Rights officials on July 17 to discuss upcoming resolutions, declarations and strategy for the 63rd UN General Assembly in New York. French International Organizations A/S-equivalent Sylvie Berman [...]
2008-07-29 15:46:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN NGO PHUM UN
08PARIS1447SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT'S NUCLEAR ENERGY SUPPLY
[...] (U) Summary. On July 20-21, Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Special Assistant Marc Humphrey traveled to Paris for consultations on civil nuclear supply criteria in light of the anticipated expansion in nuclear energy. Meetings were held with officia [...]
2008-07-29 16:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALENRG TRGY KNNP PREL ETTC IAEA FR
08PARIS1464EU-SOUTH AFRICA SUMMIT: NO BREAKTHROUGHS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There were no breakthroughs at the July 25 EU-South Africa Summit in Bordeaux. As was expected, the two sides did not reach agreement on an EU-South Africa Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) because of South Africa's insistence that it be accorded certain privileges available [...]
2008-07-31 08:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ECON PHUM ETRD EUN SF FR
08PARIS147FRENCH ANTICIPATE MAJOR PUSHBACK ON NEXT UNSCR ON
[...] (C) At the end of a late January 25 meeting on Iraq (septel),we informed French MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf Franck Gellet that we were mobilizing to begin talking to non-P-5 members of the UNSC on elements for a new UNSCR on Iran. Gellet said he appreciated the informat [...]
2008-01-29 06:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP UNSC FR IR
08PARIS149MFA AND PRESIDENCY VIEWS ON COLOMBIAN HOSTAGE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA A/S for the Americas Daniel Parfait described an uncertain way forward to secure the release of FARC hostages following the January 21 visit of Colombian President Uribe to France. While a determined President Sarkozy continues to press the MFA for proposals to obtain Ingrid [...]
2008-01-29 13:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM FR CO VZ SP SZ VT
08PARIS15A/S SILVERBERG'S MEETING WITH FRENCH MFA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Kristen Silverberg met in Paris on December 21 with her French counterpart, Sylvie Bermann. They discussed a range of issues currently before the UN Security Council (UNSC). Bermann pushed for a UNSC endorsemen [...]
2008-01-04 17:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA EUN UNHRC FR
08PARIS1501FRANCE'S CHANGING AFRICA POLICY: PART I
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The revised Africa policy President Nicolas Sarkozy announced after taking office in May 2007 is taking shape. This new policy features a reduction and consolidation of France's military presence to align it more closely with Africa's regional structures, more "business-like" rela [...]
2008-08-01 15:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FR
08PARIS1505GLOBAL INITIATIVE: FRANCE WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-04 11:15:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP MCAP PINR PINS JO
08PARIS1513ECONOMIC AND LABOR REFORMS THAT WILL CHANGE THE
[...] (SBU) The French National Assembly has adopted four key economic and labor reforms that will ease many services and labor market constraints, boost purchasing power, promote entrepreneurship, and allow individual firms to negotiate overtime hours with their employees. The fours laws in questi [...]
2008-08-04 17:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV FR
08PARIS1519SUDAN/DARFUR: EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITY OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French have discussed with Sudan FM Deng Alor things that Sudan could do, in its own interests, that might alleviate pressure stemming from a possible ICC indictment of President Bashir, but have not promised that if Sudan behaved in a certain way that France would try to st [...]
2008-08-06 07:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KJUS PHUM UNSC SU FR
08PARIS1529FRANCE: MEASURED APPROVAL FOR NEW U.S. BURMA
[...] (C) France welcomes new U.S. sanctions on Burma and is open to strengthening existing EU sanctions as long as they do not interfere with provision of humanitarian aid, Burma Desk Officer Jeremie Petit said August 6 in response to reftel points. He added that EU experts are reviewing Europe's [...]
2008-08-07 08:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETRD FR BM
08PARIS1545UPCOMING CHANGES IN FRENCH INTERNATIONAL MEDIA IDENTITY
[...] (SBU) Changes President Sarkozy has set in motion to revitalize the public television industry will likely have a significant impact on France's international media presence. Reforms will consolidate France's internationally broadcast public networks under a new holding company modeled after t [...]
2008-08-11 08:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO OPRC FR
08PARIS155FRENCH MFA EMPHASIZES THAT IRAQ'S PROBLEMS ARE
[...] (U) Action request at para 7. 2. (C) At the end of a January 25 briefing by visiting Washington analysts on transition/security issues in Iraq, French MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf Franck Gellet expanded on French reluctance to host the next meeting on the Iraq Compact [...]
2008-01-29 16:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM FR IZ UN
08PARIS156FRANCE AND IPR - OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGAGEMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: As France prepares for its 2008 EU Presidency, President Sarkozy is placing a high priority on Intellectual Property Rights, pushing forward several initiatives that could influence the global evolution of online IPR. The Olivennes Commission Report on digital piracy, commission [...]
2008-01-29 17:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIPR ETRD PGOV FR
08PARIS1568FRANCE’S CHANGING AFRICA POLICY: PART II (FRENCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France's new Africa policy has received mixed reviews from Africans uncertain as France moves away from the "France-Afrique" model. Some Africans seem to accept the outlines of the new policy, some have expressed misgivings about replacing the familiar with the unknown, and some have p [...]
2008-08-13 17:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FR
08PARIS1584RWANDA: FRENCH REACTION TO GENOCIDE ACCUSATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting MFA Rwanda desk officer Claude Blevin said on August 14 that France was waiting to see if Rwanda would act on the recent Rwandan report accusing France of involvement in the 1994 genocide. He said the report was politically motivated and an attempt by Rwanda to have Fran [...]
2008-08-18 16:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPINR KJUS RW FR
08PARIS1587TFGG01: FRENCH EFFORTS TO RESOLVE CRISIS IN GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary: Since President Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Kouchner met with Secretary Rice on August 14, President Sarkozy has maintained high-profile efforts to implement the Russia/Georgia six-point cease-fire accord he negotiated in his capacity as EU President -- especially the main p [...]
2008-08-18 18:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS16FRENCH FM KOUCHNER'S JANUARY 1-2 VISIT TO PAKISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As the first high-level Western official to visit Pakistan since Benazir Bhutto's death, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner carried a strong message to President Musharraf that free and fair elections must go forward as soon as possible. While in Pakistan January 1- 2, Ko [...]
2008-01-04 18:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER PARM SHUM IN PK FR
08PARIS1600TFGG01: AUGUST 20: FRENCH PRESIDENCY ON SITUATION
[...] (C) We met August 20 with Boris Boillon, who normally covers NEA issues but was filling in for a colleague who covers Russia and the CIS, at the Elysee to discuss the missing copy of the six-point cease-fire accord with Russian President Medvedev's signature. Boillon handed over a Russian la [...]
2008-08-21 10:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1601TFGG01: AUGUST 20: FRENCH PRESIDENCY ON SITUATION
[...] (C) We met August 20 with Boris Boillon, who normally covers NEA issues but was filling in for a colleague who covers Russia and the CIS, at the Elysee to discuss the missing copy of the six-point cease-fire accord with Russian President Medvedev's signature. Boillon handed over a Russian la [...]
2008-08-21 10:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1616TFGG01: FRENCH VIEW OSCE MONITORS IN GEORGIA AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 21, French Elysee Advisor Boris Boillon and MFA A/S for Eurasia Roland Galharague, who traveled with FM Kouchner to the region, provided us with a consistent interpretation of the arrival of OSCE monitors: the new monitors are responding to the emergency situation; they [...]
2008-08-21 18:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1625FRENCH RESPONSE ON SUPPORTING AFGHANISTAN'S
[...] (C) We delivered reftel message on supporting Afghanistan's candidacy for the MESA seat on the IAEA Board of Governors (BOG) to French MFA DAS-equivalent for Levantine affairs Ludovic Pouille on 19 August. Prior to that meeting, we had previewed the pitch we would be making on August 13 to [...]
2008-08-22 14:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA FR SY IR AF
08PARIS1626 THE GOF TURNS TO DEFICIT CUTTING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although part of the Sarkozy teamQs campaign platform, fiscal adjustment was put on the back burner in favor of other reform priorities following the 2007 elections. Now under considerable budgetary pressure, the GOF has ruled out further tax cuts (with an exception for reform [...]
2008-08-22 16:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV FR
08PARIS1627NO SUBSTANTIVE FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-22 17:31:00Embassy ParisSECRETEFIN ECON PREL PARM PINR PTER KNNP FR SY IR
08PARIS163TWO-MONTH TARGET TO PRIORITIZE FRENCH MILITARY
[...] (S) Summary. French military and civilian authorities are "feeling the pressure" to step up France's military engagement in Afghanistan and are actively reviewing options that they plan to announce at the NATO summit in Bucharest. In addition to planning associated with President Sarkozy's [...]
2008-01-30 14:58:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL MOPS NATO FR AF
08PARIS1647FRENCH ON SERBIA: QUIET OPPOSITION TO ICJ, AND
[...] (C) On August 28, MFA desk officer for Serbia Felix Buttin, along with Kosovo desk officer Herve Boisguillaume, provided updates in French thinking on the Serbian proposal for an ICJ resolution, progress in the EU's interim trade agreement with Serbia, and the lifting of the Karadzic family's [...]
2008-08-29 15:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA UN KV FR
08PARIS1648FRENCH VIEW PAKISTAN THROUGH PRISM OF AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA desk officer Nicolas Bergeret told Poloff on August 28 that while the GOF is not necessarily sad to see President Musharraf depart, they hope the new Pakistani president to be elected on September 6 commits to strengthening democratic institutions and respect for the ru [...]
2008-08-29 16:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PHUM PTER PGOV FR PK
08PARIS1650TREASURY D/S KIMMITT, FRENCH NSA LEVITTE ON IRAN,
[...] (C) Summary: On August 29 President Sarkozy,s Diplomatic Advisor Jean-David Levitte and Deputy Advisor for Security Affairs Francois Richier outlined for Treasury D/S Robert Kimmitt GOF thinking on &quick, effective and sharp8 next steps on Iran. The GOF would present its ideas more fully in [...]
2008-08-30 12:48:00Embassy ParisSECRETECON EFIN FR PREL RS IR
08PARIS1660FRANCE SUPPORTS EXPANSION OF AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On September 2 we conveyed reftel demarche in support of the expansion of the Afghan National Army from 86,000 to 134,000 at the September 10 Joint Coordination Board Meeting in Kabul to Nicolas Niemtc [...]
2008-09-03 11:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MCAP AF FR
08PARIS167SATELLITE RE-ENTRY DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO FRENCH,
[...] (C) On January 29, reftel demarche was delivered to Philippe Errera, MFA Advisor to FM Kouchner for Strategic Affairs, following initial contact with the MFA duty officer on January 27 and subsequent guidance from the MFA. Also on January 29, reftel demarche was delivered to the European Spa [...]
2008-01-30 16:34:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PNAT PINS TSPA TPHY KTIA ESA NASA GM UK
08PARIS1671SUDAN: FRENCH OFFER NO "DEAL" BUT BELIEVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Presidency official Romain Serman on September 4 said that Sudanese officials seemed to be acknowledging reality and the need for them to change their behavior following consultations in Khartoum that Deputy Diplomatic Advisor Joubert and Serman held on September 2 with [...]
2008-09-04 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC SU FR
08PARIS1672FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR GYMNICH
[...] (C) Summary: On September 4, MFA CFSP Deputy Mathieu Carmona shared his expectations for the September 5-6 Gymnich meeting of EU Foreign Ministers, responding to reftel demarches A and B. Carmona advised that Friday's discussion will focus on Transatlantic Relations, with an emphasis on mai [...]
2008-09-05 11:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG RU FR
08PARIS1694FUTURE U.S.-EU RELATIONS AND GEORGIA/RUSSIA
[...] (C) Summary: Gathered in Avignon for the Gymnich informal September 5-6, EU Foreign Ministers, the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP),and European Commission members discussed the future of U.S.-EU relations, updating the European Security Strategy, the Georgia [...]
2008-09-08 17:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN FR
08PARIS1696SARKOZY PLANS ON GEORGIA-RUSSIA CONFLICT
[...] (S/NF) Summary. In a September 5 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker, Francois Richier, the Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy, discussed EU plans for the September 8 meeting with Russian President Medvedev (other topics will be reported septel). Present for the Sep [...]
2008-09-09 08:36:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS RU GG FR UN
08PARIS1697U.S. AMBASSADOR TO NATO DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (U) This message contains an action request -- please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary. On September 5-6, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker met with Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy and Michel Miraillet, the Director of Strategic Affairs at the MOD, to di [...]
2008-09-09 08:58:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL NATO FR AF PK SO
08PARIS1698FRANCE'S CHANGING AFRICA POLICY: PART III
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France's new Africa policy may have its most immediate impact on France's military presence in Africa. The French are planning to consolidate their military presence and want to orient it towards cooperation with Africa's sub-regional groupings (e.g., ECOWAS, SADC, et al.) and awa [...]
2008-09-09 16:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FR
08PARIS1703ELYSEE READOUT OF SARKOZY'S SEPTEMBER 3-4 VISIT TO
[...] (S) Summary: During his September 3-4 visit to Damascus,President Sarkozy told Syrian President Bashar al-Asad that in order to establish a relationship of trust with France, Syria would need to honor its commitments and respect certain principles (e.g., Lebanon's sovereignty and the International [...]
2008-09-09 18:13:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR LE UNSC PREL
08PARIS1704THE FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY: INSTITUTIONAL GOALS IN
[...] (C) Summary. French Presidency EU Advisor Fabien Raynaud provided his views on the first months of France's EU Presidency in an mid-August introductory meeting. Setting external issues aside to focus on internal EU cooperation, he said that the GOF is encouraged by progress thus far on its [...]
2008-09-10 16:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN FR
08PARIS1707IRAQ COALITION DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 17:02:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR PREL MOPS IZ
08PARIS1708FRENCH READOUT OF EU MISSION TO MOSCOW AND NEXT
[...] (C/NF) Summary. On September 10, Political M/C met with Damien Loras, Advisor to President Sarkozy on Russia and the Caucasus, who provided a readout of President Sarkozy,'s September 8 trip to Moscow and the reasoning behind the provisions in the final agreement on Georgia. Despite the dif [...]
2008-09-11 17:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL GG RU FR EU
08PARIS1709DEMARCHE ON SNIPER RIFLES DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 17:14:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR PARM PREL MASS ETTC FGM AU IR
08PARIS1715FRANCE CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE OF EXPANDING ON ISAF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-12 17:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF FR
08PARIS1716MFA THINKING ON IRAN AND IRAQ
[...] (C) Summary: Franck Gellet, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq, Iran, and the Arabian Peninsula, acknowledged progress over the past year in Iraq and said that as a result, France had moved away from its previous idea of convening an international conference to promote Iraqi national reconciliation. [...]
2008-09-12 17:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR IZ IR
08PARIS1717FRENCH BELIEVE THAT ASSASSINATION OF SYRIAN
[...] (S/NF) As Washington readers and others ponder French policy toward Syria, and as an expansion of para 3 in reftel, we pass along the previously unreported views of two of our GOF interlocutors from meetings in late August on the mysterious assassination earlier in the month of Syrian brigad [...]
2008-09-12 17:57:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINS PINR FR SY LE
08PARIS1718FRENCH EXPECT A PRODUCTIVE SEPTEMBER GAERC
[...] (C) Summary. On September 12, MFA deputy for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona said the September 15-16 GAERC will focus on implementation of next steps on Georgia, including deployment of the EU observer mission by October 1. The GAERC will also decide the mandate and n [...]
2008-09-12 18:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN RS GG ZI SO SR TU FR
08PARIS1721SOMALIA: UNSC SANCTIONS AND PIRACY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Somalia desk officer Thierry Caboche said on September 12 that France favored a 12-month time limit to the UNSC Somalia sanctions resolution now under consideration in New York, to allow the Security Council to maintain closer supervision over the sanctions process than wou [...]
2008-09-15 09:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC EUN MOPS SO FR
08PARIS1726SUDAN/ICC/SANCTIONS: "WE ARE NOT NEGOTIATING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for Sudan Helene Le Gal stressed on September 12 that "we are not negotiating with Sudan" concerning its recent discussion with the Khartoum regime during which the French explained to the Sudanese the things Sudan needed to do to improve its standing in the [...]
2008-09-15 17:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC SU CD FR
08PARIS1728FRANCE CONSIDERING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR AFGHAN
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on September 15 to Francois Delmas, who is responsible for NATO and Afghanistan issues in the Strategic Affairs bureau at the MFA. Delmas said that the GOF was expecting this demarche soliciting contributions for the Afghan National Army and is currently cons [...]
2008-09-16 08:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATEU MOPS MARR FR AF
08PARIS1740FRENCH REACTION TO ENGAGING EUORPEAN COUNTRIES ON
[...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post shared points on Argentina investment disputes with French Ministry of Finance officials on August 19. Emboff followed up with Finance Ministry officials September 16 and met with Hugo Hanne, Head of the Americas Division and Vanessa Gouret, Deputy Head of Servic [...]
2008-09-17 12:24:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIDE AR FR
08PARIS1745MORE FROM EU SPECIAL REP FOR GEORGIA AND FRENCH
[...] (C) Summary: EU Special Representative for the Georgia Crisis Pierre Morel took a few minutes from intensive preparations for the EU/Central Asia forum to discuss his thinking about preparations for the mid-October Geneva meeting on Georgia. As noted in reftel, he plans to visit New York a [...]
2008-09-17 17:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS MARR FR GG RS EU UN
08PARIS1746BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
[...] (U) Embassy contacted Defontaine planning and logistics chief, Pascal Boutin (Tel: +33-02 40 67 89 07; email: pascal-boutin@defontaine.com) and MOD Directorate General for Armements U.S. Desk officer Maj. Eng. Damien LOUISE (Tel: + 33 1 46 19 67 00; email: damien.louise@dga.defense.gouv.fr) for [...]
2008-09-18 13:45:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08PARIS1750FRANCE AND RUSSIA: PRIME MINISTERS TO MEET IN
[...] (C) Late on September 17, FM Kouchner's adviser on Russia/Georgia/the Balkans Isabelle Dumont told us that a French FM Fillon would go to Sochi September 19-20 for a "governmental seminar" in Sochi where he would also meet Russian PM Putin. The event, scheduled before the Georgia crisis, was [...]
2008-09-18 16:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL RS GG FR
08PARIS1751USDP EDELMAN DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary. On September 12, USDP Edelman and Counselor Eliot Cohen met with Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs Advisor to FM Kouchner; Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy; and Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MOD, to discuss Afghanistan, P [...]
2008-09-19 09:17:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO AF PA GG RU FR
08PARIS1753FRENCH UPDATES ON COUNTER-PIRACY; EU COORDINATION
[...] (C) Summary. France has not yet identified another nation to take over escorting World Food Program shipments (which the French call "Operation Alcyon") once Canada's scheduled escort duty stops on September 27, according to MFA desk officers Samer Melki and Guillaume Dabouis during a Septem [...]
2008-09-19 14:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN
08PARIS1761SUDAN: GATHERING FRENCH SUPPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson met with French presidential advisor Bruno Joubert in Paris on September 12 to discuss the results of Joubert's September 2 visit to Khartoum and gather support against Sudanese efforts to gain an Article 16 suspension in the UN Security Council ( [...]
2008-09-22 09:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC SU FR UN
08PARIS1769FRENCH WARILY BACK CONTINUED UN-LED TALKS ON
[...] (C) France supports in principle a continuation of the UN-led talks on Western Sahara but was not prepared to commit to another round until it was clearer how the talks would proceed according to Nathalie Loiseau, PDAS-equivalent in the MFA's NEA who responded to Ref B demarche on September 1 [...]
2008-09-22 14:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PGOV UNSC FR MO AG WI
08PARIS1771AIRBUSQSYRIA TALKS ON AIRCRAFT LEASE
[...] (U) This is an action cable. See paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Recent press reporting has speculated on the possible sale or lease of Airbus aircraft to Syria's state carrier. While the GOF has downplayed the reports, speculation has centered on ways in which a deal could be structured to sidestep [...]
2008-09-22 15:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ECON ETRD EAIR PREL FR
08PARIS1777ENERGY SECURITY: FRENCH GOALS ON CENTRAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a September 17 meeting with MFA Director for Economic Affairs Christian Masset, Special Envoy for Eurasia Energy C. Boyden Gray shared concerns over Caspian Basin supply diversification issues and the need for greater EU engagement with Central Asia. Masset told Gray the is [...]
2008-09-23 16:27:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ZK PREL FR EU
08PARIS1785DEMARCHE TO GOF ON RUSSIAN INITIATIVE TO ALLOW
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-24 15:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC FR RU GG
08PARIS1791FRANCE JOINS U.S. IN OPPOSING NICARAGUAN
[...] (C) The GOF shares USG opposition to Nicaragua's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia according to French MFA desk officer Philippe Garcia de la Rosa who spoke to poloff on September 22. Garcia said the GOF agrees with all points in reftel and further rejects efforts to liken the indepe [...]
2008-09-25 09:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL EUN GG NU RU FR
08PARIS1793FRANCE SUPPORTS U.S. ON PNG DECISION BY BOLIVIA
[...] (C) The French Government agrees with the U.S. position from reftel demarche on the decision by Bolivia and Venezuela to declare our ambassadors persona non grata (PNG),according to MFA desk officers Aurelien Lepine-Kouas and Lionel Paradisi who spoke to poloff on September 22. The MFA noted [...]
2008-09-25 15:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM BL ASEC FR
08PARIS1805FRENCH GOVERNMENT TAKING A HARD LINE ON COUP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, Counselor on Africa at the French Presidency, on September 19 provided a frank assessment of the situation in Mauritania in the aftermath of the August 6 coup to Ambassador Mark Boulware, stating that the French are prepared for a "divorce" with Mauritania if P [...]
2008-09-26 16:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR KDEM PINS MR FR
08PARIS1817PRELIMINARY FRENCH RESPONSES TO UN FIRST COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-30 17:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC UNGA CDG FR
08PARIS1822FRANCE CONSIDERING HUMAN RIGHT TO BROADBAND
[...] (SBU) In a speech set for October 13, President Sarkozy will announce a major policy initiative on the future of the digital economy that may include support for a human right to internet broadband access. 2. (SBU) In discussions September 30 - October 1 with Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S [...]
2008-10-01 17:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PHUM ETRD KIPR FR
08PARIS1826EUROPEAN G-8 HEADS OF STATE TO DISCUSS FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] (SBU) The heads of France, Germany, Britain, Italy, the Eurogroup, the European Commission and the European Central Bank will meet in Paris Saturday to "prepare the contribution of European members of the G8 to the upcoming meetings of this group devoted to the international financial crisis." [...]
2008-10-02 14:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL FR
08PARIS1828FRANCE: S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES WAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Williamson met with French MFA officials on September 12 to discuss human rights abuses in Georgia and the status of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR),the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL),the Khmer Rouge Tribunal [...]
2008-10-03 09:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC FR UN
08PARIS1830FRENCH VIEW ON EU BIOFUELS SUSTAINABILITY
[...] (SBU) Summary. France continues to press to conclude the climate and energy package before the end of its EU presidency as a step towards consolidating an EU position before the UNFCC Poznan meeting in December 2008. France supports in principle the biofuel targets in the current draft of t [...]
2008-10-03 13:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN
08PARIS1836FRENCH VIEW ON EU BIOFUELS SUSTAINABILITY
[...] (SBU) Summary. France continues to press to conclude the climate and energy package before the end of its EU presidency as a step towards consolidating an EU position before the UNFCC Poznan meeting in December 2008. France supports in principle the biofuel targets in the current draft of t [...]
2008-10-03 16:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN
08PARIS1845FRENCH PLAN FOR RATIFICATION OF NATO ENLARGEMENT
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) The MFA wants the French Parliament to approve NATO membership for Croatia and Albania before the April 2009 NATO summit in Strasbourg-Kehl, according to DAS-equivalent for the Balkans, Thierry Guichoux, who discusse [...]
2008-10-06 16:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNATO PARM MARR PREL KTIA FR AL CR
08PARIS1846FRANCE CONSIDERING HUMAN RIGHT TO BROADBAND
[...] (SBU) In a speech set for October 13, President Sarkozy will announce a major policy initiative on the future of the digital economy that may include support for a human right to internet broadband access. 2. (SBU) In discussions September 30 - October 1 with Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S [...]
2008-10-07 08:31:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PHUM ETRD KIPR FR
08PARIS1853GENERAL PETRAEUS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary. During a September 25-26 visit to Paris to receive military honors, General David Petraeus met with French interlocutors including DefMin Herve Morin, PM Franois Fillon, Secretary-General of the MFA Gerard Errera (D-equivalent) and President Sarkozy's diplomatic advisor Jean-Dav [...]
2008-10-07 17:31:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS FR AF PA SY LE IR
08PARIS1855MARCH 14 SHOOTS ITSELF IN FOOT DURING ELYSEE VISIT
[...] (S) Summary: A March 14th delegation led by Lebanese MP Marwan Hamadeh that met October 2 with senior French officials may have done more harm than good, at least so far as relations with the Elysee are concerned. "What world are they living in?" Boris Boillon, Counselor for Middle East Affairs at [...]
2008-10-08 10:11:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR PREL PGOV KDEM PINS LE SY
08PARIS186INDIA: SARKOZY VISIT INCREASES BILATERAL
[...] (C) Summary. President Sarkozy's January 25-27 official visit to India was political rather than commercially focused, according to DAS-equivalent Didier Leroy January 29. Leroy highlighted that France initialed a civil nuclear agreement, increased environmental cooperation, signed bilateral [...]
2008-02-01 17:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR IN
08PARIS1862SUDAN: NAFIE FAILS TO IMPRESS FRENCH, WHO HAVE NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During his October 6 Paris meetings, Sudanese Presidential Advisor Nafie Ali Nafie failed to convince French officials that Sudan had made progress in areas of concern that would warrant a shift in France's position, according to MFA desk officer Frederic Bouvier. The Sudanese d [...]
2008-10-08 15:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PHUM SU FR
08PARIS1863FRENCH SUPPORT STREAMLINING U.S. COMMAND AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) During the recent visits to Paris of USDP Eric Edelman (ref B) and General David Petraeus (ref C),both men raised with their French interlocutors the recent designation of General McKiernan as ISAF as well as OEF co [...]
2008-10-08 16:24:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF FR
08PARIS1868 France's Societal Preferences Trade Initiative -
[...] (SBU) Summary: French initiatives to incorporate societal preferences into European trade policy were the theme of a lunch we hosted with agriculture, econ and commercial counterparts from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil, The friendlies have been watching recent developments with c [...]
2008-10-09 17:18:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR SENV SOCI EU
08PARIS1869FRENCH ESDP INITIATIVES POST-DEAUVILLE DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. On October 1-2, European Union (EU) defense ministers decided on common directions for capacity-building initiatives and EU military operations at an informal ministerial in Deauville, France. As an informal ministerial, Deauville produced no formal decisions, rather [...]
2008-10-10 13:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MCAP MOPS EUN FR
08PARIS187BURKINA FASO/COTE D'IVOIRE: FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's January 27 visit to Burkina Faso focused on Cote d'Ivoire and the need to remain engaged on ensuring free and fair elections there, according to the MFA desk officer responsible for both countries. The main priority is to enable the e [...]
2008-02-01 18:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM UV IV FR
08PARIS1872 PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's September 17 session, Club Chairman Musca briefed creditors on recent contacts with the Government of Argentina (GOA),which revealed that Argentina intends to clear arrears excluding late interest and resume debt service on future installments. Creditors in [...]
2008-10-10 14:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS1874FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-10 16:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC FR
08PARIS1875FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY: GAERC PREPARATIONS STILL IN
[...] (C) Summary. On October 10, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona provided an overview of French expectations for the October GAERC. In addition to Zimbabwe, Georgia, and Belarus, the topics of the U.S. demarche, Uzbekistan and Moldova, wil [...]
2008-10-10 17:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV ZI UZ BO GG RS FR EUN
08PARIS188FRANCE/DRC/RWANDA: FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Rwanda and its troubled relations with France emerged as the key element of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's January 25-26 to the DRC and Rwanda, according to Laurent Chevallier, the MFA desk officer for both. Kouchner made a sincere, good-faith effort to display to [...]
2008-02-01 18:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CG RW FR
08PARIS1884AIRBUS ON SYRIA DEAL AND USG EXPORT CONTROLS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Airbus confirmed its commitment to acquiring U.S. export licenses, as necessary, for any aircraft sales to Syria. Apart from the proposed sale of 50 aircraft to Syria, Airbus expressed continuing frustration over the complicated U.S. export control and licensing procedures that [...]
2008-10-14 15:24:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ECON ETRD EAIR PREL SY FR
08PARIS1886CUBA ALSO BLOCKS FRENCH BILATERAL HURRICANE
[...] (C) The United States is not the only country or group of countries whose aide has been refused by Havana after a series of deadly hurricanes ravaged the Caribbean nation (ref a),said French MFA desk officer Anne Suard. Suard told poloff on October 14 the Cuban government is still retaliati [...]
2008-10-15 14:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL CU FR
08PARIS1890BEIJING OLYMPICS FAIL TO IMPROVE FRENCH VIEWS ON
[...] (SBU) The French public watched the Beijing Summer Olympics in large numbers and with interest but came away without an appreciable change in their generally downbeat views on China. Our reading from contacts in discussions since the August 24 closing ceremony is that in the current context [...]
2008-10-15 15:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH FR
08PARIS1893FRANCE PROPOSES INFORMAL MEETING OF AFGHANISTAN'S
[...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. On October 15, Pol M/C met with Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs advisor to FM Kouchner, to discuss the French proposal for a meeting to discuss regional cooperation among Afghanistan's neighbors. Errera apologized that t [...]
2008-10-15 17:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL AF FR UZ TI TX IR PK
08PARIS1894 CLONES AND CLONE PRODUCTS DENOUNCED BY FRENCH ADVISORY
[...] Summary: The release on the market of products sourced from cloned animals and their offspring should be prohibited according to the October 14 conclusions of the French Advisory Committee on Food (Conseil national de l'Alimentation.) The CNA is an official advisory body. Its conclusions were [...]
2008-10-15 18:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS1895FRENCH SEEK FUNDAMENTAL REFORM OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL
[...] (C) The French Government's objective for the summit proposed in President Sarkozy's speech to the UN General Assembly is to set an agenda for rethinking the international financial system with a view to assuring stable global growth over the long term, according to a working-level GOF contac [...]
2008-10-16 08:34:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN PREL EUN FR
08PARIS1896C.A.R.: FRENCH SHARE U.S. WORRIES ON C.A.R.'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the Presidency, MOD, and MFA shared U.S. concerns about the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) during Ambassador Frederick Cook's October 14 and 15 consultations in Paris. These concerns centered on the almost complete lack of good governance in C.A.R., Pres [...]
2008-10-16 08:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR PGOV MARR ECON CT FR
08PARIS1902AMBASSADOR-LEVITTE DISCUSSION ON CAMP DAVID MEETING
[...] (C) In an October 16 meeting, Elysee Diplomatic Advisor Levitte told Ambassador he sees the October 18 meeting between President Sarkozy, European Commission President Barroso and President Bush as a brainstorming session on the summit recently agreed to by the G8. The French objective for the [...]
2008-10-17 08:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN PREL EUN FR
08PARIS1908FRENCH PRESIDENCY REACTS TO GENEVA MEETING ON
[...] (C) French presidency adviser for Russia, Central Asia, and the Americas Damien Loras on October 16 provided DCM an update on French thinking about Russia and Georgia following the October 15 meeting in Geneva. He argued that France preferred to regard the Russian withdrawal from areas adja [...]
2008-10-17 12:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD EUN FR RS GG
08PARIS1914FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES GENEVA CONFERENCE ON
[...] (C) MFA A/S-equivalent for Continental Europe, Galharague told us October 17 that the fact that the Geneva meeting took place qualifies it as a success for the French. No one had any illusions that the Geneva meeting would be easy, given the Russian threat not to participate if South Ossetia [...]
2008-10-17 15:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS PINR PHUM EUN FR RS GG
08PARIS1917GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FINANCIAL SYSTEM: MFA DAS DISCUSSES GOF
[...] (C) On October 16, Elysee Diplomatic Advisor Levitte gave Ambassador the broad-brush French position on when, where and why the GOF wants an international summit on the financial system. He avoided going much into the substance, arguing that he is not an expert in international finance. To get [...]
2008-10-17 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN PREL EUN FR
08PARIS1927FRANCE PREPARES TO ENGAGE NEW US ADMINISTRATION ON
[...] (S/NF) Summary/comment: France's foreign policy establishment plans to engage the new U.S. administration as soon as possible (even, perhaps, before the formal inauguration) on a range of Middle East issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Iran, and Syria/Lebanon. In the hope [...]
2008-10-20 16:55:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNFR PREL PGOV MEPP
08PARIS1930IO DAS ANDERSON DISCUSSES UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: IO DAS Anderson discussed UN issues on October 10 with French MFA IO-DAS equivalent Marc Giacomini who expressed GOF support for the Immediate Plan of Action reform package being proposed at the FAO conference in Rome on November 19. He noted the importance of presenting a unifie [...]
2008-10-21 11:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC FR UN
08PARIS1936CHAD: CONTINUED HIGH FRENCH ENGAGEMENT IS KEY TO
[...] (C) Deputy Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Bruno Joubert told U.S. Ambassador to Chad Louis Nigro on October 20 that 2009 could be a "pivotal year" in Chad's history. Joubert said that French priorities in Chad centered on (a) electoral reform to achieve credible elections in Chad in 2009 an [...]
2008-10-21 15:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR MARR CD FR
08PARIS1942USDP EDELMAN'S CONSULTATIONS IN PARIS, OCTOBER 16
[...] (C) Summary. On October 16, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP) Eric Edelman met with GOF officials Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the Defense Ministry, and Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs Advisor to Foreign Minister Kouchner. They agreed on the importance of [...]
2008-10-22 16:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS AF PA IS IZ LE SY IR TU FR
08PARIS1946MAURITANIA/FRANCE: "ISOLATE AZIZ, MAKE HIM LEAVE"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French are attempting to isolate Mauritania coup leader General Aziz, in order to force his resignation, which would lead to the return of constitutional government, Presidential AF Counselor Romain Serman said on October 22. Serman said that the GOF had had some success in [...]
2008-10-23 13:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PINS ETTC MR FR
08PARIS1947FRENCH PRESIDENCY INSIDER ON HOW TO GET THINGS
[...] (SBU) President Sarkozy's activist approach to the financial crisis is playing well with the public because the French see him as focused and statesmanlike, State Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs Roger Karoutchi told the Ambassador at a working lunch October 20. A governing UMP party ins [...]
2008-10-23 17:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON FR
08PARIS1948FRENCH MFA "PRUDENT" ON MOSKALENKO CASE, CITES
[...] (C) MFA desk officer for Russian internal issues Arnaud Migoux told us October 23 that the French are paying close attention to the alleged poisoning of Russian human rights lawyer Karina Moskalenko in the eastern French city of Strasbourg where she lives. However, French investigators are [...]
2008-10-23 17:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM PGOV PINS PINR FR RS
08PARIS1949A EUROGROUP COUP FOR SARKOZY?
[...] (C) Summary: President Sarkozy,s October 21 speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, touching on a number of issues related to the financial crisis, is being interpreted by some observers here as a trial balloon for a Sarkozy presidency of a transformed (head-of-state) Eurogroup. [...]
2008-10-23 18:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV FR
08PARIS1951FRANCE IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] (U) Per ref tasking, this message provides an initial read on France and the financial crisis, including immediate credit/liquidity concerns, the longer macroeconomic outlook, government actions in response to the crisis, expected domestic impact and possible effects on U.S.-French relations. [...]
2008-10-24 07:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL FR
08PARIS1958SUDAN/QATAR: FRENCH INTERESTED BUT NOT OPTIMISTIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal on October 23 said that France was not optimistic that the Qatar process on Sudan/Darfur would produce results, although France was interested in and supportive of Qatar's effort. In Qatar, French envoy Issa Maraut has helped convey the French m [...]
2008-10-24 15:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PGOV SU AL QA FR
08PARIS1960THE POLITICS OF NYET: RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND THE COE
[...] (C) Russian intransigence, lack of EU unity for meaningful action, general European desire for dialogue with Moscow at almost any price, and a cautious Council of Europe (COE) Secretariat combine to provide little hope that even minimal COE monitoring of Russia and Georgia will succeed. Incom [...]
2008-10-24 15:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM COE FR GG RU
08PARIS1961FRENCH RESPONSE TO GICNT: GI INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-24 17:00:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC FR
08PARIS1973A EUROGROUP COUP FOR SARKOZY?
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-28 11:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV FR
08PARIS1975BOUCHER AND FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS AFGHAN
[...] (C) Summary. During an October 21-22 visit to Paris, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher discussed with numerous French officials the next steps of the UN "Friends of Pakistan" group and U.S. efforts to tighten security by supporting police and trainers i [...]
2008-10-28 15:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL AF FR UZ TZ CH TA
08PARIS1976SARKOZY WANTS TO TALK SUBSTANCE NOVEMBER 15
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 9. 2. (C) Summary: European Affairs Minister Jouyet's Chief of Staff Denis Simonneau and economic affairs advisors told EMIN not to underestimate President Sarkozy's commitment to "refounding capitalism" during the upcoming series of summits. The Fr [...]
2008-10-28 15:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL FR
08PARIS1978CHAD: FRENCH EAGER TO DISCUSS MINURCAT II
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (C) SUMMARY: French MFA officials suggest a conference telephone call between the Department and the French MFA on Friday, October 31, at 4:00 pm Paris time (11:00 am EDT) to allow interested parties on both sides to discuss specifics con [...]
2008-10-28 16:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS MARR UN CD FR
08PARIS1979DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES DISCUSSES UNGA RESOLUTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles met with French MFA Human Rights Director Jacques Pellet (Please Protect Throughout) in Paris on October 23 to discuss United Nations General Assembly Third Committee resolutions and other UN issues. The French agree on the need for a strong Iran resolution, [...]
2008-10-28 18:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC FR UN
08PARIS1980FRENCH CIVILIAN NUCLEAR: CURRENT AMBITIONS AND FUTURE
[...] (SBU) Summary. In 10/16-17 meetings French officials and private sector representatives told Special Representative Frank Mermoud that France wants its national energy industrial groups to be leaders in the "nuclear renaissance". Expansion is being driven by energy security and climate change [...]
2008-10-29 11:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALENRG ETRD PREL FR GM
08PARIS1982HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT SEPTEMBER VISIT TO FRANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael O. Leavitt traveled to France from September 8, 2008 to September 10, 2008 to promote U.S. interests in the areas of food and drug safety, pandemic influenza preparedness, and the development of medical countermeasures. [...]
2008-10-29 17:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU ECON SENV AMED KSCA
08PARIS1983FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL TALKS ABOUT GEORGIA DONORS,
[...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for Eurasian Affairs Alexandre Vulic told us that the Georgia donors conference in Brussels on October 22 served as confirmation that the European Union has addressed the conflict in Georgia from every angle. All pledged money will be controlled by either the E [...]
2008-10-29 18:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON EUN FR RU GG
08PARIS1984FRANCE AND THE OSCE: HDIM DISCUSSIONS IN PARIS
[...] (SBU) U.S. delegation head at the recent OSCE Human Development Implementation Meeting in Warsaw Ambassador Robert Pearson, in his October 13 meeting with French MFA Director for Human Rights and International Relations Sylvie Bermann, focused on the U.S. desire to work with Europe to deline [...]
2008-10-29 18:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV OSCE FR
08PARIS1986FRENCH MFA ECON DIRECTOR ON ENERGY SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary: In a 10/28 meeting MFA Economic Affairs Director Christian Masset provided an informal reaction to points contained in the President,s 10/21 letter to President Sarkozy on energy security issues. Masset said French and U.S. thinking was broadly in line on key issues. The French [...]
2008-10-29 18:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON PREL FR
08PARIS1987BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
[...] Embassy met with Eurotradia International Services Division Chief Charles de Montesquieu (Tel: +33 1 40 76 26 50; email:cdemontesquieu@eurotradia.fr) for clarification of subject shipment. 2. Montesquieu informed us that Eurotradia (established as Office Generale de l'Aeronautique I 1920) is [...]
2008-10-30 08:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08PARIS1994FRENCH G8 FASS ON DOHA, GLOBAL ISSUES AND THE
[...] (C) In response to pre-GAERC points on Doha (reftel),MFA Econ Director Christian Masset told EMIN on 10/28 that the "parameters (of Doha) had changed." In the current context it would be impossible to return to the deal with a business-as-usual approach. Getting Doha back on track would req [...]
2008-10-30 13:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EFIN FR
08PARIS1996FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES RELATIONS WITH
[...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for Eurasian affairs Alexandre Vulic told us October 24 that, although the recent elections in Belarus did not meet any democratic standards, the EU intends to proceed with small steps to ease Belarus' isolation in response to other gestures Minsk has taken, most [...]
2008-10-30 16:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EFIN EUN FR BO
08PARIS1997FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY: EU DIPLOMATS COMMENT ON
[...] (C) Summary. Halfway through its six-month French EU presidency, it seems fair to say that Paris seized the opportunity for a global leadership role offered by several unexpected crises on its watch, while still making progress on its previously cited goals. Early concerns about the penchan [...]
2008-10-30 17:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR EUN FR
08PARIS1998MEDITERRANEAN UNION DOMINATES MUBARAK VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Unresolved issues with the Mediterranean Union -- participation of the Arab League, location of the Union's secretariat, ensuring continuing EU engagement during the Czech EU presidency (or an extension of the French co-presidency),and agreement on a declaration for the November [...]
2008-10-30 18:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR EG
08PARIS200FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS IN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA -
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-04 15:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO WHO XG
08PARIS2001FRENCH PRESIDENCY'S GYMNICH PREVIEW:
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-31 16:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD EUN RS IS AF PK SY LE SO IR
08PARIS2003 UNEXEPCTED DIFFICULTIES IN PARIS CLUB NEGOTIATION WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary. What should have been easy negotiations with Djibouti during the second day of the October 2008 Paris Club meeting turned out to be unexpectedly difficult due to a knotty problem of inter-creditor equity and to Djibouti's last-minute desire to exclude some loans that had already [...]
2008-10-31 17:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID FR DJ
08PARIS2004 PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The October 2008 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon included Argentina, Congo-B, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, DRC, Iraq, Liberia, the Seychelles, and Togo. Paris Club Co-Chairman Coeure reported that, in an earlier conversation with the Paris Club Secretariat, Argentine Minister Fernandez had re [...]
2008-10-31 17:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS2005FLIRTING WITH DISASTER: FRANCE PREPARES FOR THE
[...] (C) As Paris moves into the weekend before the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM) ministerial in Marseille 3-4 November, great uncertainty about its outcome and prospects for making good on the grand vision for the UPM sketched out in Paris last July prevail. A senior-level contact at the Fr [...]
2008-10-31 18:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN XT XF FR EZ EG IS SW AL
08PARIS2012DRC/FRANCE: "NO NEW TROOPS -- FOR NOW"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DRC deskoff Laurent Chevallier on November 3 said that France did not at present support sending new forces to DRC. Instead, MONUC should be reorganized and redeployed to address security concerns in North Kivu. The French are working to promote EU-AU consultations that w [...]
2008-11-03 17:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREF PINS PINR MARR CG FR
08PARIS2016S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES GUANTANAMO
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Williamson met with French MFA officials on October 27 to discuss possible resettlement of Guantanamo Bay detainees in France. Williamson noted there are approximately 25 detainees considered low-threat whom the U.S. wants to release but cannot return to their [...]
2008-11-04 13:06:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO FR
08PARIS202FRENCH MFA ON WESTERN SAHARA BEFORE VAN WALSUM'S
[...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau indicated January 29 that France is increasingly impatient with UN-led talks on Western Sahara and believes the process may even be moving backward. She blamed part of French frustration on UN Personal Envoy Peter van [...]
2008-02-04 16:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER FR MO AG MR WS
08PARIS2023MEDITERRANEAN UNION MINISTERIAL ENDS UP A SUCCESS
[...] (SBU) The Marseille ministerial on the Union for the Mediterranean concluded November 4 amid wrangling over organizational details to include in the final declaration continuing well past the allotted time for the working plenary session. French FM Kouchner and Egyptian FM Abu al-Ghayt, how [...]
2008-11-05 14:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON EUN FR EG CZ IS AG TU
08PARIS2024FRANCE: INTERIOR MINISTER PLEDGES "RETURN
[...] (SBU) Summary: French Interior Minister Alliot- Marie made an impassioned case for the "return of the state" in economic governance and a law enforcement approach to economic security at a recent high-level business colloquium. Ambassador Stapleton was invited to speak on security and global [...]
2008-11-05 15:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PREL FR
08PARIS2027OECD: "SOCIETAL CONCERNS" AND NON-TARIFF MEASURES MAJOR
[...] SUMMARY: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Trade(JWPAT) held its 60th meeting October 16-17, 2008. During the meeting, there was discussion concerning election of the 2009 Bureau, including the position of Chair. Only one [...]
2008-11-06 14:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOECD ETRD EAGR ECON SENV
08PARIS2033NOVEMBER 6 MEETING WITH PLO REPRESENTATIVE HIND
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will visit Paris during the week of November 9 for meetings with PM Fillon and FM Kouchner, according to PLO Representative Hind el-Khoury. She noted that the Palestinian delegation was "very pleased" with the results of the [...]
2008-11-06 17:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR
08PARIS2055MFA PREVIEWS PART OF FM KOUCHNER'S MESSAGE WITH
[...] (C) Summary: During his November 11 visit to Washington, FM Kouchner will share the long-awaited EU paper on the Trans-Atlantic Partnership, MFA DAS-equivalent Ludovic Pouille told EUR PDAS Marcie Ries November 7. Specifically, Kouchner, whose intended audience is President-elect Obama and hi [...]
2008-11-07 17:26:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR PREL
08PARIS2056FRENCH VIEWS ON THE NOVEMBER 10 EU GAERC
[...] (SBU) French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona responded on November 7 to reftel points on the upcoming EU GAERC. He began by observing that this one would be the most complicated of the current French presidency, since it would also involve a joint [...]
2008-11-07 17:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR EAID XA FR RS LE CG CH IZ BK
08PARIS2079FRENCH OFFICIALS: NATO UNITY REQUIRES NO DECISION
[...] (C/NF) Summary. During PDAS Marcie Ries' meetings on Friday, November 7 with French officials Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs Advisor to FM Kouchner; Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy; and Jacques Audibert, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MFA; all of he [...]
2008-11-10 15:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO FR RU
08PARIS2087HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION ON IRAN: FRENCH RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-12 13:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM FR
08PARIS2088EUR PDAS RIES DISCUSSES EU/RUSSIA RELATIONS,
[...] (C) Summary: On November 10, French presidency adviser on Russia, Damien Loras, confirmed that the EU/Russia summit will conclude November 14 with the announcement that talks on a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) will resume, a decision Loras argued was not a "big step" and the mo [...]
2008-11-12 17:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PBTS MARR UNSC EUN FR RS GG
08PARIS2089FRENCH REACTION TO NOVEMBER 9 QUARTET MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: The November 9 Quartet meeting reaffirmed the international consensus on the need to continue the Annapolis process "exactly as we expected," said French NEA A/S-equivalent Patrice Paoli on November 12. Paoli said he was struck by an informal consensus among Arab attendees that H [...]
2008-11-12 17:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR
08PARIS2092CAMEROON HOSTAGES: MFA PROVIDES BACKGROUND
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: MFA Cameroon desk officer Daniel Westerink (PROTECT THROUGHOUT) on November 12 briefed on the Cameroon hostage incident that ended with the release of the hostages on November 11. While affirming that the GOF did not pay a ransom, Westerink strongly implied that the company [...]
2008-11-13 09:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER CM FR
08PARIS2099RWANDA/FRANCE: ROSE KABUYE'S ARREST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French expect that Rwandan official Rose Kabuye will be extradited to France from Germany by November 21 at the latest. In France, she will testify before French judges investigating the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The judges will decide, in effect, either to dismiss the case [...]
2008-11-14 08:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KJUS RW FR
08PARIS2101COTE D'IVOIRE: FRENCH RESIGNED TO DELAYED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Cote d'Ivoire desk officer Marie Audouard on November 14 said that France was resigned to the fact that elections in Cote d'Ivoire would not be possible by the November 30 target date, but hoped that they would take place before the beginning of the 2009 rainy season. She [...]
2008-11-14 14:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MARR IV FR
08PARIS2104FRENCH REORGANIZATION IN RESPONSE TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. Under the Sarkozy government France has created a "super-ministry" that merges ecology, energy, transportation, sustainable development and regional planning into a single ministry. The new organization is headed by a Minister of State senior to all other ministers. With an a [...]
2008-11-14 17:43:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG EGHG
08PARIS2108PARIS: SOMALIA PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-17 16:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW FR
08PARIS2122INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
[...] Summary France continues to be a major transshipment point for drugs moving through Europe. Given France,s shared borders with trafficking conduits such as Spain, Italy, and Belgium, France is a natural distribution point for drugs moving toward North America from Europe and the Middle Ea [...]
2008-11-19 09:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL FR
08PARIS2127 FRENCH GOVERNMENT PROMISES FINANCIAL PACKAGE TO ADDRESS
[...] Summary: Following large-scale farmer demonstrations throughout France on November 7, the French Minister of Agriculture proposed a 250 million euro financial assistance package for the French farm sector. The package encompasses a wide range of programs, including direct payments to the Frenc [...]
2008-11-20 08:03:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD PGOV EUN FR
08PARIS2129U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARD FOR ECTOPIC
[...] ESTH Office has review the proposed research and Embassy Paris find no objection to the proposed research grant entitled "Ectopic Cushings Syndrome". STAPLETON [...]
2008-11-20 10:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY FR
08PARIS2130U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARD FOR
[...] ESTH Office has review the proposed research and Embassy Paris find no objection to the proposed research grant entitled "Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy". STAPLETON [...]
2008-11-20 11:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY US UK PO FR SW AR BR
08PARIS2134P3 CONSULTATIONS ON NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT IN PARIS
[...] (C) Summary. On November 7, Acting U/S John Rood met in Paris with his French and British counterparts Jacques Audibert and Mariot Leslie, respectively, to discuss a broad range of nonproliferation, arms control, and disarmament issues. Topics included regional issues (Iran, North Korea, and Syria) [...]
2008-11-21 08:21:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PARM MARR KACT FR UK CH RU KN SY IR
08PARIS2135FRANCE TO CALL FOR NICARAGUA VOTE RECOUNT
[...] (C) France shares U.S. concerns about the November 9 municipal elections in Nicaragua and will issue a new statement within days calling for a recount, Nicaragua Desk Officer Philippe Garcia de la Rosa told Poloff November 20 in response to reftel points. The new MFA statement, which is in t [...]
2008-11-21 09:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR NU
08PARIS214FRANCE SUPPORTS PRIVATE SECTOR OUTREACH AND THE
[...] (SBU) Embassy poloff delivered reftel demarche together with Russian Federation terrorism expert Artem Studennikov on February 6 to Thomas Guibert, French MFA Strategic Affairs desk officer for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Guibert expressed France's support in principle [...]
2008-02-06 15:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC IAEA FR
08PARIS2140EGYPT GRIPING TO FRENCH ABOUT SOMALIA ANTI-PIRACY
[...] (C) Egypt has been pressing French authorities about the geographic scope of EU anti-piracy operations, according to both the French MFA and the Egyptian Embassy. AF DAS-Equivalent Helene Le Gal complained November 18 to Africa Watcher about Egypt,s unhelpful stance and noted that Yemen, too [...]
2008-11-21 10:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS SO FR
08PARIS2141FRENCH TO ABSTAIN ON ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-21 12:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY FR
08PARIS2142FRENCH CAUTIOUS ON IAEA SYRIA REPORT
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche November 20 to Arnaud Mentre, action officer for Iran in the MFA's ISN-equivalent. Mentre was phlegmatic about the IAEA report on Iran, noting that Iran's enrichment seems to be on "autopilot" for the moment. As for Syria, Mentre offered as an initial impr [...]
2008-11-21 12:45:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR TRGY FR
08PARIS2146FRENCH ENVIRONMENT NEGOTIATOR UNDERSTANDS US ENGAGEMENT IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: French climate negotiator Brice Lalonde told EMIN that he understands that the new administration will need time to organize and he looks forward to working with Under Secretary Dobriansky in Poznan. EMIN also explained our position on the EU Renewable Fuels Directive, especiall [...]
2008-11-24 10:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG EU FR
08PARIS2149FRANCE/ZIMBABWE: MORGAN TSVANGIRAI'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe visited France November 17-19, beginning in Strasbourg at the EU meeting on development. He met with FM Kouchner in Strasbourg and traveled in Kouchner's plane to Paris. In Paris on November 18, he met with Claude Gueant (Secretary-General at th [...]
2008-11-24 14:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM ZI FR
08PARIS215FRENCH INTEREST IN IOSEA (TURTLE) MOU
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-06 15:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDFR SENV TBIO
08PARIS2150FRANCE/RWANDA: KABUYE CASE MAY OFFER A CHANCE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential AF Counselor Romain Serman on November 24 said that France and Rwanda were taking steps to use Rwandan official Rose Kabuye's arrest as a basis for cooperation on resolving issues relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Rwanda may allow French investigators to visit [...]
2008-11-24 15:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KJUS RW FR
08PARIS2151TOGO: PRESIDENT FAURE GNASSINGBE'S VISIT TO PARIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo President Faure Gnassingbe's visit to Paris the week of November 17 was largely uneventful but allowed the two sides to touch base, and provided France the opportunity to remind Faure of the importance of carrying out democratic reform and holding meaningful dialogue with th [...]
2008-11-25 10:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV SNAR TO BN FR
08PARIS2156EU DIPLOMATS PREDICT LITTLE PROGRESS WITH TURKEY
[...] (C) Summary. A quick survey of EU diplomats in Paris in November 2008 produced consensus that expectations for Turkey-EU relations in 2009 should be modest. Though the incoming Czech and then Swedish EU presidencies are more pro-Turkey than President Sarkozy's France, our contacts agree wit [...]
2008-11-26 12:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN TU FR
08PARIS2158SENIOR FRENCH ADVISOR DISCUSSES THE FINANCIAL AND
[...] (SBU) Senior advisor in the office of the French President Damien Loras and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Skelton and colleagues engaged in a lively discussion of the financial and economic crisis during a meeting November 24. They also briefly discussed relations with Russia. Part [...]
2008-11-26 14:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL OREP FR
08PARIS216LATEST ELYSEE TAKE ON LEBANON
[...] (C) French Presidency adviser on NEA affairs Boris Boillon told us February 1 that France has run out of "levers, carrots, and sticks" to use in resolving the continued political impasse in Lebanon. The word from the French embassy in Damascus, he added, was that Syrian President Asad has s [...]
2008-02-06 16:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY
08PARIS2162FRENCH CONSIDERING SUPPORT FOR THE EXPANSION OF
[...] (C) On November 26, Post delivered reftel demarche supporting the expansion of the Afghan National Army at the NATO Foreign Ministerial meeting to Nicolas Niemtchinow, Sous-Director (DAS-equivalent) of Strategic Affairs at the MFA. Niemtchinow appreciated our comments and noted general Frenc [...]
2008-11-26 15:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MARR MOPS AF FR
08PARIS2178BURMA: FRANCE CONCERNED ABOUT BANK MEASURES IN EU
[...] (C) France wants to adjust EU sanctions on Burma to address banking sector concerns but will not accept any weakening of measures against the Junta, MFA DAS- equivalent for Southeast Asia Frederic Laplanche told us December 1 in response to reftel points. With respect to restructuring specif [...]
2008-12-02 12:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EREL ETTC EFIN FR EU MY
08PARIS2182FRANCE: SARKOZY'S JANUARY COLLOQUIUM
[...] (C) Summary: Eric Besson, the Junior Minister organizing the recently announced January 8-9 Paris Conference (now titled "New World: New Capitalism; Values, Development and Regulation"),dropped by a scheduled Embassy meeting with his staff December 2 to underline that this conference is "not a [...]
2008-12-02 17:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL WTO EU FR
08PARIS2183FRENCH WELCOME BIOFUELS "SUSTAINABILITY" DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy delivered reftel points to French Ministries of Agriculture, Economy and Environment. The Agriculture Ministry told us that the EU is still discussing the biofuels sustainability and criteria issue, and that they still hope to resolve the issue by the end of the French P [...]
2008-12-03 07:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN EU FR
08PARIS2184FRENCH ENVIRONMENT NEGOTIATOR UNDERSTANDS US ENGAGEMENT IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: French climate negotiator Brice Lalonde told EMIN that he understands that the new administration will need time to organize and he looks forward to working with Under Secretary Dobriansky in Poznan. EMIN also explained our position on the EU Renewable Fuels Directive, especiall [...]
2008-12-03 07:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG EU FR
08PARIS2190IEA Standing Group on Emergency Questions, November 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-03 13:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG EPET IEA OECD
08PARIS2195FRANCE PREPARES FURTHER ACTION AGAINST IRAN
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The GOF is preparing to require financial institutions to report all transactions with Iran, and is also examining the possibility of banning or further restricting such transactions. The Senior Elysee diplomatic advisor urged increased pressure on Iran and deferral of any nego [...]
2008-12-04 10:10:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KNNP PTER PARM EUN UNSC IR UZ FR
08PARIS2196FRANCE-RUSSIA RELATIONS: DIALOGUE IS KEY
[...] (C) The France-Russia relationship has been rather turbulent since France assumed the rotating EU presidency in July. The short August war between Georgian and Russian troops heightened tensions in the region and presented President Sarkozy with the perfect opportunity to showcase both his [...]
2008-12-04 12:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR RS
08PARIS2203EU AVIATION AND ENVIRONMENT SUMMIT ON EMISSIONS TRADING
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the November 17-19 EU Aviation Summit in Bordeaux the GOF gave no signs of backing off commitments to include aviation in ETS, but it provided no guidance on regulating international flights. Opponents of ETS including aviation called for greater reliance on ICAO for emissio [...]
2008-12-05 07:33:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR KGHG SENV EIND ETRD FR
08PARIS2212FRENCH SAY SYRIA DELIVERING ON ALL FRONTS
[...] (S) Summary: "We think Syria is delivering on the key dossier," French Presidency Advisor for the Middle East Boris Boillon said December 5, as he recapped his November 30 visit to Damascus with Presidency Secretary General Claude Gueant and NSA-equivalent Jean-David Levitte. In contrast to his col [...]
2008-12-05 18:18:00Embassy ParisSECRETPGOV PREL FR
08PARIS2213French welcome Biofuels "sustainability" Demarche
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel, the Embassy has reached out to French Government officials in the Ministries of Agriculture, Economy and Environment. The Agriculture Ministry told us that the EU is still discussing the biofuels sustainability and criteria issue, and that they still hope [...]
2008-12-08 07:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN EU FR
08PARIS2222FRANCE PUSHES RENEWABLE ENERGIES DESPITE COUNTERCURRENTS
[...] Summary. France has unveiled an ambitious national plan to double the share of renewables in total energy consumption to 23 percent by 2020. At present, hydropower accounts for 12 percent. Apart from biofuels for transportation, the new renewable electricity plan will target photovoltaic (PV) [...]
2008-12-08 17:31:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG SENV ENRG TRGY EU FR
08PARIS2223French Agriculture Minister's Letter to Commerce Secretary
[...] (SBU) French Agriculture and Fisheries (MAP) Minister Barnier sent a letter to US Commerce Secretary Gutierrez responding to the Embassy's demarches requesting information for the January 2009 Magnuson-Stevens Act report now being prepared by the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries [...]
2008-12-08 17:32:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS ETRD SENV ICCAT EU FR
08PARIS2225FRENCH MFA ON CHAD; SEES LIBYA ANGLING TO DELIVER
[...] (C) Summary: Chad President Deby's military gains have outpaced consolidation of his political position, French AF DAS-Equivalent for Western and Central Africa Christine Fages commented in a brief December 5 meeting with AF/SPG Director Timothy Shortley and Africa Watcher. A Deby-Bashir mee [...]
2008-12-09 10:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KPKO SU CD FR
08PARIS2226FRANCE AND CUBA: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION
[...] (C) The following paragraphs are responses to the request for information on the relationship between France and the Cuban government and the implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act(ref a): 2. (C) Has France, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and hu [...]
2008-12-09 11:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU FR
08PARIS2229FRENCH MFA IN A BIND OVER EGYPTIAN UNESCO CANDIDACY
[...] (S/NF) IO A/S-Equivalent Sylvie Berman, expressing a personal view that she suggested many colleagues shared, conceded to Pol M/C that the candidacy of Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni for UNESCO Director-General (DG) was a "shocking nomination" but she stressed France was in awkward st [...]
2008-12-09 18:25:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNUNESCO FR
08PARIS2248EU ENERGY SECURITY STRATEGY SEMINAR
[...] (SBU) Summary. Participants in a December 1 EU Presidency seminar in Paris on energy security concluded that EU goals on energy security, energy efficiency, and the fight against climate change are mutually reinforcing. The financial crisis and economic downturn has boosted EU solidarity and [...]
2008-12-11 13:22:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ECON SENV EUN
08PARIS2249 FRENCH BIOTECH AUTHORITY CREATED AS ECJ FINES FRANCE
[...] Summary: On December 7, France announced the creation of a new biotech evaluation authority in the French Official Journal. The declaration of the new "competent authority," called The High Biotech Committee, preceded, but did not halt, the imposition of a 10 million euro fine by the European C [...]
2008-12-11 14:33:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS2250ZIMBABWE/FRANCE: AU SHOULD RE-ASSERT OWNERSHIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, AF advisor at the French Presidency, on December 10 said that the African Union should try to re-assert control over the Zimbabwe issue, with SADC and Mbeki having failed to mount unified and firm pressure on Mugabe to leave, which was the only course available gi [...]
2008-12-11 15:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ZI FR
08PARIS2251SUDAN/DARFUR: DECEMBER 5 P-3 CONSULTATIONS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The President's Special Envoy to Sudan, Ambassador Richard Williamson, met with P-3 counterparts in Paris on December 5 and, separately, with AU-UN Mediator Djibril Bassole to discuss Sudan, Darfur, and the Qatar process. In the P-3 meeting, the UK and France agreed with Willi [...]
2008-12-11 15:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KJUS PINR SU FR
08PARIS2252SUDAN/FRANCE: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR NOTES EROSION
[...] (C) Romain Serman, AF advisor at the French Presidency, on December 10 reviewed Sudan-related issues (discussions of Mauritania and Zimbabwe reported septels). Serman said that ICC prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo had consulted with the GOF earlier the same day. Moreno-Ocampo predicted that the ICC [...]
2008-12-11 16:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KJUS SU FR
08PARIS2253MAURITANIA/FRANCE: POLITICAL PROCESS AT AN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, AF advisor at the French Presidency, said on December 10 that the political process in Mauritania was blocked, with neither Aziz, President Abdallahi, nor opposition leader Amed Ould Daddah willing to compromise to reach a solution. Serman said that internal GOF [...]
2008-12-11 16:39:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PTER PINR KDEM MR FR
08PARIS2256P-3 PLUS GERMANY DISCUSS COUNTER-PIRACY AND THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a 12/2 meeting hosted by the French MFA on combatting piracy off the Horn of Africa, the P-3 plus Germany agreed in principle to the creation of an international Contact Group (CG) and deliberated on the timing of its roll-out with respect to a planned UNSC Ministerial Mee [...]
2008-12-12 10:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPTER MARR EWWT KPKO UNSC FR PHSA
08PARIS2259FRANCE: SARKOZY'S JANUARY COLLOQUIUM - INVITATION TO NEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy has received a formal invitation from the GOF inviting Ambassador Stapleton and representatives of the new U.S. Administration to participate in the recently announced January 8-9 Paris Colloquium on: New World, New Capitalism. Copies of the invitation and draft program [...]
2008-12-12 14:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL WTO EU FR
08PARIS2266 IBC MEETING ON HUMAN CLONING
[...] The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of UNESCO met October 28-29, 2008, followed, October 30-31, by a joint meeting of the IBC and the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC),to discuss what the IBC should recommend to the Director General on possible action by UNESCO with respect [...]
2008-12-15 14:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO TBIO
08PARIS2272FRENCH REAFFIRM SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-16 15:03:00Embassy ParisSECRETPGOV PREL FR
08PARIS228THE ATTALI REPORT: A NEW PATH TO REFORM AND GOVERNING
[...] (SBU) President Sarkozy on January 23 pledged to enact -- with three exceptions -- recommendations for spurring economic growth devised by a commission headed by Jacques Attali, former political adviser to Socialist President Mitterrand. These proposals range from boosting competition in the r [...]
2008-02-08 15:03:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV FR
08PARIS2284RUSSIA/GEORGIA: FRENCH PRESIDENCY OFFICIAL SEEKS
[...] (C) During a December 16 meeting with Pol MC, French Presidency (Elysee) advisor for Russia and the Americas Damien Loras asked for our assistance dealing with Georgia. Per Loras, President Sarkozy used the coming end of the French EU presidency to write to Russian President Medvedev in earl [...]
2008-12-17 17:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MCAP MARR FR GG RU
08PARIS2285FRANCE'S PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY SAYS BIOTECH, GENERICS KEY
[...] (U) Summary: Lack of innovation, due in part to pricing and information controls, has caused the French pharmaceutical industry, once a world leader, to fall behind its competitors. The French government has taken steps to support the industry, rewarding innovators and promoting research and [...]
2008-12-18 09:28:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD FR
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